Form and Transformation in Asian American Literature

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

Two Hat Softeners "in the Trade Confession": John Yau and Kimiko Hahn / Zhou Ziaojing

Beyond the Length of an Average Penis: Reading Across Traditons in the Poetry of Timonty 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 / Rocio 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

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