Asian American Literary Studies.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Series Editor's Foreword -- Introduction: Global and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Asian American Literary Studies -- Section I: Perspectives on Literature and History -- Chapter 1 Asian American Literary History: War, Memory, and Representation -- Chapter 2 The Self in the Text versus the Self as Text: Asian American Autobiographical Strategies -- Chapter 3 Asian Americans Imagining Burma: Chang-rae Lee's A Gesture Life and Wendy Law-Yone's Irrawaddy Tango -- Section II: Perspectives on Gender Roles and Representation -- Chapter 4 Globalization, Masculinity, and the Changing Stakes of Hollywood Cinema for Asian American Studies -- Chapter 5 Gender Negotiations and the Asian American Literary Imagination -- Chapter 6 Long a Mystery and Forever a Memory: God vs. Goddess in the Ethnic Novel -- Chapter 7 Realigning and Reassigning Cultural Values: Occidentalist Stereotyping and Representations of the Multiethnic Family in Asian American Women Writers -- Section III Perspectives on Language and Culture -- Chapter 8 "I Love My India": Indian American University Students Performing Identity and Creating Culture on Stage -- Chapter 9 Speaking Outside of the Standard: Local Literature of Hawai'i -- Chapter 10 Staging Heterogeneity: Contemporary Asian American Drama -- Notes on the Editor and Contributors -- Index.

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