Lan Dong is an assistant professor of English at the University of Illinois, Springfield. She is the author or editor of three books and has written a number of journal articles and book chapters on Asian American literature, children’s literature, and popular culture.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments     Introduction: Heroines of Transnational Asian AmericaLan Dong      Part I: Myth, History and BeyondOf Princesses Pari and Fox Girls: Nora Okja Keller’s Transnational Performance of Korean Histories and MythsSilvia Schultermandl      Water Birth: Domestic Violence and Monstrosity in Hiromi Goto’s The Kappa ChildNancy Kang      Between Ruination and Reconciliation: Dragon Princesses, Cambodian American Heroines, and Loung Ung’s Lucky ChildCathy J. Schlund-Vials      Part II: Battles, Rituals and WorshipFrom Female Self-Sacrifice to Korean Freedom Fighter: Yu Guan Soon in Theresa Cha’s DictéeKaren An-hwei Lee      Merlinda Bobis: The Transnational Filipina Warrior Between the Postcolonial Exotic and the Babaylan/CatalonanMarie-Therese C. Sulit      Mulan Against Gwan Gung: Performing Myths on a Transnational StageLan Dong      Part III: Multination, Transnation and CommunitiesRe-Imagining Happily-Ever-After in Bharati Mukherjee’s JasmineAmy N. Nishimura      Adopting a Different Posture and Relocating One’s Roots: The Trung Legend in Vietnamese American NarrativesTina Lynn Powell      The Nicole Subic Rape Case and the Chingada in the Philippine ImaginaryDanicar Mariano      Part IV: (Un)Spoken Subjects, Cross-Cultural Heroines and MediaLost in Translation: American Critical Audience and the Transnational Chinese SwordswomanCatherine Gomes      Phoolan Devi: The Primordial Tradition of the Bandit QueenJ. Sunita Peacock      Translating Mother’s Tongue(s) and Traveling Bodies: Palimpsest and Diaspora in Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman WarriorPei-Ju Wu      About the Contributors      Index

Lan Dong is an assistant professor of English at the University of Illinois, Springfield. She is the author or editor of three books and has written a number of journal articles and book chapters on Asian American literature, children’s literature, and popular culture.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments     Introduction: Heroines of Transnational Asian AmericaLan Dong      Part I: Myth, History and BeyondOf Princesses Pari and Fox Girls: Nora Okja Keller’s Transnational Performance of Korean Histories and MythsSilvia Schultermandl      Water Birth: Domestic Violence and Monstrosity in Hiromi Goto’s The Kappa ChildNancy Kang      Between Ruination and Reconciliation: Dragon Princesses, Cambodian American Heroines, and Loung Ung’s Lucky ChildCathy J. Schlund-Vials      Part II: Battles, Rituals and WorshipFrom Female Self-Sacrifice to Korean Freedom Fighter: Yu Guan Soon in Theresa Cha’s DictéeKaren An-hwei Lee      Merlinda Bobis: The Transnational Filipina Warrior Between the Postcolonial Exotic and the Babaylan/CatalonanMarie-Therese C. Sulit      Mulan Against Gwan Gung: Performing Myths on a Transnational StageLan Dong      Part III: Multination, Transnation and CommunitiesRe-Imagining Happily-Ever-After in Bharati Mukherjee’s JasmineAmy N. Nishimura      Adopting a Different Posture and Relocating One’s Roots: The Trung Legend in Vietnamese American NarrativesTina Lynn Powell      The Nicole Subic Rape Case and the Chingada in the Philippine ImaginaryDanicar Mariano      Part IV: (Un)Spoken Subjects, Cross-Cultural Heroines and MediaLost in Translation: American Critical Audience and the Transnational Chinese SwordswomanCatherine Gomes      Phoolan Devi: The Primordial Tradition of the Bandit QueenJ. Sunita Peacock      Translating Mother’s Tongue(s) and Traveling Bodies: Palimpsest and Diaspora in Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman WarriorPei-Ju Wu      About the Contributors      Index

Lan Dong is an assistant professor of English at the University of Illinois, Springfield. She is the author or editor of three books and has written a number of journal articles and book chapters on Asian American literature, children’s literature, and popular culture.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments     Introduction: Heroines of Transnational Asian AmericaLan Dong      Part I: Myth, History and BeyondOf Princesses Pari and Fox Girls: Nora Okja Keller’s Transnational Performance of Korean Histories and MythsSilvia Schultermandl      Water Birth: Domestic Violence and Monstrosity in Hiromi Goto’s The Kappa ChildNancy Kang      Between Ruination and Reconciliation: Dragon Princesses, Cambodian American Heroines, and Loung Ung’s Lucky ChildCathy J. Schlund-Vials      Part II: Battles, Rituals and WorshipFrom Female Self-Sacrifice to Korean Freedom Fighter: Yu Guan Soon in Theresa Cha’s DictéeKaren An-hwei Lee      Merlinda Bobis: The Transnational Filipina Warrior Between the Postcolonial Exotic and the Babaylan/CatalonanMarie-Therese C. Sulit      Mulan Against Gwan Gung: Performing Myths on a Transnational StageLan Dong      Part III: Multination, Transnation and CommunitiesRe-Imagining Happily-Ever-After in Bharati Mukherjee’s JasmineAmy N. Nishimura      Adopting a Different Posture and Relocating One’s Roots: The Trung Legend in Vietnamese American NarrativesTina Lynn Powell      The Nicole Subic Rape Case and the Chingada in the Philippine ImaginaryDanicar Mariano      Part IV: (Un)Spoken Subjects, Cross-Cultural Heroines and MediaLost in Translation: American Critical Audience and the Transnational Chinese SwordswomanCatherine Gomes      Phoolan Devi: The Primordial Tradition of the Bandit QueenJ. Sunita Peacock      Translating Mother’s Tongue(s) and Traveling Bodies: Palimpsest and Diaspora in Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman WarriorPei-Ju Wu      About the Contributors      Index