Form and Transformation in Asian American Literature.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (305 pages)
- Scott and Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies .
- Scott and Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies .
Cover -- Contents -- Introduction: Critical Theories and Methodologies in Asian American Literary Studies -- Winnifred Eaton/Onoto Watanna: Establishing Ethnographic Authority -- The Seduction of Origins: Sui Sin Far and the Race for Tradition -- Political Resistance, Cultural Appropriation, and the Performance of Manhood in Yung Wing's My Life in China and America -- Reading Ethnography: The Cold War Social Science of Jade Snow Wong's Fifth Chinese Daughter and Brown v. Board of Education -- Abraham Verghese Doctors Autobiography in His Own Country -- Cambodian American Autobiography: Testimonial Discourse -- Two Hat Softeners "in the Trade Confession": John Yau and Kimiko Hahn -- Beyond the Length of an Average Penis: Reading across Traditions in the Poetry of Timothy Liu -- Decolonizing the Bildungsroman: Narratives of War and Womanhood in Nora Okja Keller's Comfort Woman -- Short Story Cycle and Hawai'i Bildungsroman: Writing Self, Place, and Family in Lois-Ann Yamanaka's Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers -- Recasting the Spy, Rewriting the Story: The Politics of Genre in Native Speaker by Chang-rae Lee -- Telling Twice-Told Tales All Over Again: Literary and Historical Subversion in Bharati Mukherjee's The Holder of the World -- Notes on Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.