Guiyou Huang is Dean of Undergraduate Studies & Programs at St. Thomas University, Florida. His books include Whitmanism, Imagism, and Modernism in China and America (1997) and The Columbia Guide to Asian American Literature (2005). His edited books inlcude Asian American Autobiographers (2001), Asian American Poets (2002), and Asian American Short Story Writers (2003).

• TABLE OF CONTENTS; Introduction: Global and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Asian American; Literary Studies - Guiyou Huang; Section I: Perspectives on Literature and History; 1. Asian American Literary History: War, Memory, and Representation; - Gayle K. Sato; 2. The Self in the Text versus the Self as Text: Asian American Autobiographical Strategies; - Rocío G. Davis; 3. Asian Americans Imagining Burma: Chang-rae Lee's A Gesture Life and Wendy Law-Yone's Irrawaddy Tango - Cheng Lok Chua; Section II: Perspectives on Gender Roles and Representation; 4. Globalization, Masculinity, and the Changing Stakes of Hollywood Cinema for Asian American Studies - Karen Fang; 5. Gender Negotiations and the Asian American Literary Imagination; Wenxin Li; 6. Long a Mystery and Forever a Memory: God vs. Goddess in the Ethnic Novel - Guiyou Huang; 7. Realigning and Reassigning Cultural Values: Occidentalist Stereotyping and Representations of the Multiethnic Family in Asian American Women Writers - Tamara Silvia Wagner;; Section III: Perspectives on Language and Culture; 8. 'I Love My India': Indian American Students Performing Identity and Creating; Culture on Stage - Vincent H. Melomo; 9. Speaking Outside of the Standard: Local Immigrant Literature of Hawai'i; Amy N. Nishimura; 10. Staging Heterogeneity: Contemporary Asian American Drama - Christiane Schlote; Notes on the Editor and Contributors.

Guiyou Huang is Dean of Undergraduate Studies & Programs at St. Thomas University, Florida. His books include Whitmanism, Imagism, and Modernism in China and America (1997) and The Columbia Guide to Asian American Literature (2005). His edited books inlcude Asian American Autobiographers (2001), Asian American Poets (2002), and Asian American Short Story Writers (2003).

• TABLE OF CONTENTS; Introduction: Global and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Asian American; Literary Studies - Guiyou Huang; Section I: Perspectives on Literature and History; 1. Asian American Literary History: War, Memory, and Representation; - Gayle K. Sato; 2. The Self in the Text versus the Self as Text: Asian American Autobiographical Strategies; - Rocío G. Davis; 3. Asian Americans Imagining Burma: Chang-rae Lee's A Gesture Life and Wendy Law-Yone's Irrawaddy Tango - Cheng Lok Chua; Section II: Perspectives on Gender Roles and Representation; 4. Globalization, Masculinity, and the Changing Stakes of Hollywood Cinema for Asian American Studies - Karen Fang; 5. Gender Negotiations and the Asian American Literary Imagination; Wenxin Li; 6. Long a Mystery and Forever a Memory: God vs. Goddess in the Ethnic Novel - Guiyou Huang; 7. Realigning and Reassigning Cultural Values: Occidentalist Stereotyping and Representations of the Multiethnic Family in Asian American Women Writers - Tamara Silvia Wagner;; Section III: Perspectives on Language and Culture; 8. 'I Love My India': Indian American Students Performing Identity and Creating; Culture on Stage - Vincent H. Melomo; 9. Speaking Outside of the Standard: Local Immigrant Literature of Hawai'i; Amy N. Nishimura; 10. Staging Heterogeneity: Contemporary Asian American Drama - Christiane Schlote; Notes on the Editor and Contributors.

Guiyou Huang is Dean of Undergraduate Studies & Programs at St. Thomas University, Florida. His books include Whitmanism, Imagism, and Modernism in China and America (1997) and The Columbia Guide to Asian American Literature (2005). His edited books inlcude Asian American Autobiographers (2001), Asian American Poets (2002), and Asian American Short Story Writers (2003).

• TABLE OF CONTENTS; Introduction: Global and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Asian American; Literary Studies - Guiyou Huang; Section I: Perspectives on Literature and History; 1. Asian American Literary History: War, Memory, and Representation; - Gayle K. Sato; 2. The Self in the Text versus the Self as Text: Asian American Autobiographical Strategies; - Rocío G. Davis; 3. Asian Americans Imagining Burma: Chang-rae Lee's A Gesture Life and Wendy Law-Yone's Irrawaddy Tango - Cheng Lok Chua; Section II: Perspectives on Gender Roles and Representation; 4. Globalization, Masculinity, and the Changing Stakes of Hollywood Cinema for Asian American Studies - Karen Fang; 5. Gender Negotiations and the Asian American Literary Imagination; Wenxin Li; 6. Long a Mystery and Forever a Memory: God vs. Goddess in the Ethnic Novel - Guiyou Huang; 7. Realigning and Reassigning Cultural Values: Occidentalist Stereotyping and Representations of the Multiethnic Family in Asian American Women Writers - Tamara Silvia Wagner;; Section III: Perspectives on Language and Culture; 8. 'I Love My India': Indian American Students Performing Identity and Creating; Culture on Stage - Vincent H. Melomo; 9. Speaking Outside of the Standard: Local Immigrant Literature of Hawai'i; Amy N. Nishimura; 10. Staging Heterogeneity: Contemporary Asian American Drama - Christiane Schlote; Notes on the Editor and Contributors.