Race and Resistance

Race and Resistance raises questions about the current project of Asian American studies that are essential considerations for the future development of the field.

• Introduction: A Crisis of Representation 1: On the Origins of Asian American Literature: The Eaton Sisters and the Hybrid Body 2: Wounded Bodies and the Cold War: Freedom, Materialism, and Revolution in Asian American Literature, 1946-1957 3: The Remasculinization of Chinese America: Race, Violence, and the Novel 4: Representing Reconciliation: Le Ly Hayslip and the Emblematic Victim 5: Queer Bodies and Subaltern Spectators: Guerrilla Theater, Hollywood Melodrama, and the Filipino (American) Novel Conclusion: Model Minorities and Bad Subjects Notes Bibliography Index