Where I Have Never Been : Migration, Melancholia, and Memory in Asian American Narratives of Return.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Names and Spelling -- 1. Narratives of Return: A Transpacific Tradition -- 2. "Ears Attuned to Two Cultures": Reconciling Accounts in Josephine Khu's Cultural Curiosity -- 3. Transpacific Echoes in the Family Memoir: Sojourns and Returns in Lisa See's On Gold Mountain -- 4. "The One Who Mediates": Mimicry, Melancholia, and Countermemory in Denise Chong's The Concubine's Children -- 5. Working through Diasporic Melancholia: Winberg and May-lee Chai's The Girl from Purple Mountain -- 6. "A Being . . . from a Different World": Yung Wing and the Making of a Global Subjectivity -- 7. "To Bring the Dead to Life": Countermemories in Lydia Minatoya's The Strangeness of Beauty and Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being -- Coda -- Notes -- Works Cited and Additional Sources -- Index.

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