Form and Transformation in Asian American Literature

Zhou Xiaojing is associate professor of English, University of the Pacific, Stockton, California. Samina Najmi is visiting assistant professor of cultural studies at Babson College, Babson Park, Massachusetts. Other contributors include Tina Y. Chen, Floyd Cheung, Rocío G. Davis, Christopher Douglas, Dominika Ferens, Pallavi Rastogi, Richard Serrano, David Shih, Rajini Srikanth, and Teri Shaffer Yamada.

"This anthology breaks new ground by offering the first sustained theoretical analysis of the centrality of form in Asian American cultural productions."--Susan Koshy, author of Sexual Naturalization: Asian Americans and Miscegenation

• Introduction: Critical Theories and Methodologies in Asian American Literary Studies / Zhou XiaojingWinnifred Eaton / Onoto Watanna: Establishing Ethnographic Authority / Dominika FerensThe Seduction of Origins: Sui Sin Far and the Race for Tradition / David ShihPolitical Resistance, Cultural Appropriation , and the Performance of Manhood in Yung Wing's My Life in China and America / Floyd CheungReading Ethnography: The Cold War Social Science of Jade Snow Wong's Fifth Chinese Daughter and Brown v. Board of Education / Christopher DouglasAbraham Verghese Doctors Autobiography in His Own Country / Rajini SrikanthCambodian American Autobiography: Testimonial Discourse / Teri Shaffer YamadaTwo Hat Softeners "in the Trade Confession": John Yau and Kimiko Hahn / Zhou ZiaojingBeyond the Length of an Average Penis: Reading Across Traditons in the Poetry of Timonty Liu / Richard SerranoDecolonizing the Bildungsroman: Narratives of War and Womanhood in Nora Okja Keller's Comfort Woman / Samina NajmiShort Story Cycle and Hawai'i Bildungsroman: Writing Self, Place, and Family in Lois-Ann Yamanaka's Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers / Rocio G. DavisRecasting the Spy, Rewriting the Story: The Politics of Genre in Native Speaker by Chang-rae Lee / Tina Y. ChenTelling Twice-Told Tales All Over Again: Literary and Historical Subversion in Bharati Mukherjee's The Holder of the World / Pallavi RastogiNotes on ContributorsIndex