Form and transformation in Asian American literature /
Zhou, Xiaojing,1952-
Najmi, Samina.
Seattle : University of Washington Press,
c2005.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : critical theories and methodologies in Asian American literary studies / Zhou Xiaojing -- Winnifred Eaton/Onoto Watanna : establishing ethnographic authority / Dominika Ferens -- The seduction of origins : Sui Sin Far and the race for tradition / David Shih -- Political resistance, cultural appropriation, and the performance of manhood in Yung Wing's My life in China and America / Floyd Cheung -- Reading ethnography : the Cold War social science of Jade Snow Wong's Fifth Chinese -- Daughter and Brown v. Board of Education / Christopher Douglas -- Abraham Verghese doctors autobiography in his own country / Rajini Srikanth -- Cambodian American autobiography : testimonial discourse / Teri Shaffer Yamada -- Hat softeners "in the trade confession" : John Yau and Kimiko Hahn / Zhou Xiaojing --
Beyond the length of an average penis : reading across traditions in the poetry of Timothy Liu / Richard Serrano -- Decolonizing the Bildungsroman : narratives of war and womanhood in Nora Okja Keller's Comfort woman / Samina Najmi -- Short story cycle and Hawai'i Bildungsroman : writing self, place, and family in Lois-Ann Yamanaka's Wild meat and the bully burgers / Rocío G. Davis -- Recasting the spy, rewriting the story : the politics of genre in native speaker by Chang-Rae Lee / Tina Y. Chen -- Telling twice-told tales all over again : literary and historical subversion in Bharati Mukherjee's The holder of the world / Pallavi Rastogi.
American literature
Asian Americans
Asian Americans in literature.