Tricksters and Cosmopolitans : Cross-Cultural Collaborations in Asian American Literary Production.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Trickster Poetics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century -- Locating Trickster Poetics: Charles Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman (1889) and Walter Hines Page -- Silence as Signifying: Sui Sin Far's Short Stories and William Hayes Ward -- 2. The Making of the Cosmopolitan Subject -- San Francisco's Multicultural Avant-Garde Literary Scene -- A Star Is Born: Narrative Construction of the Cosmopolitan Subject in Jessica Hagedorn's "Pet Food" -- The Death of the Artist: Narrative Construction of the Cosmopolitan Subject in Jessica Hagedorn's "Pet Food," Side B -- Stephen Vincent, Momo's Press, and the Crafting of "Pet Food" -- 3. L.A.-Paris-New York: The Parameters of Literary Production at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century -- Animating the Global South in Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange (1998) -- Identifying the Imperial-Colonial Register in Monique Truong's The Book of Salt (2003) -- Chick Lit Goes to Wall Street: Min Jin Lee's Free Food for Millionaires (2007) -- Notes -- Index.

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