Rajini Srikanth is Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She is the author of Constructing the Enemy: Empathy/Antipathy in US Literature and Law and winner of the Cultural Studies Book Award for The World Next Door: South Asian American Literature and the Idea of America. Min Hyoung Song is Professor of English at Boston College. He is the author of Strange Future: Pessimism and the 1992 Los Angeles Riots and winner of the ASAP Book Prize for The Children of 1965: On Writing and Not Writing as an Asian American.

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• 1. The origins of Chinese American autobiography Floyd Cheung; 2. Stage orientalism and Asian American performance from the 19th into the 20th century Josephine Lee; 3. 'I seek out poems now incomplete': writings from the Angel Island immigration station Sunn Shelley Wong; 4. The Eaton sisters and the figure of the Eurasian Jinhua Emma Teng; 5. Indian diasporic autobiography: new nations and new selves Sandhya Shukla; 6. Koreans in exile: Younghill Kang and Richard E. Kim Joseph Jeon; 7. Filipino and Filipina voices Denise Cruz; 8. Chinatown life as contested terrain: H. T. Chiang, Jade Snow Wong, and C. Y. Lee Patricia Chu; 9. Coded critique: Japanese American internment literature Traise Yamamoto; 10. Asian American short fiction and the contingencies of form, 1930s–1960s Jinqi Ling; 11. The Chicago School and the sociological imagination Cynthia Tolentino; 12. Documenting the third world student strike, the anti-war movement, and the emergence of second-wave feminism from Asian American perspectives Daryl Joji Maeda; 13. The art of the Asian American movement's social protest performance Lucy Burns; 14. Inventing identity: the manifestos of pioneering Asian American literature anthologies Donald Goellnicht; 15. Maxine Hong Kingston, feminism, and postmodern literature Stella Bolaki; 16. The emergence of Asian American literature as an academic field Viet Thanh Nguyen; 17. Theresa Hak-Kyung Cha and the impact of theory Timothy Yu; 18. Heterogeneity to multiplicity: building Asian American literary critique Anita Mannur and Allan Punzalan Isaac; 19. Whose Asias? Samir Dayal; 20. The South Asian American challenge Asha Nadkarni; 21. Contemporary Filipino American writers and the legacy of imperialism Eleanor Ty; 22. Beyond solitary confinement: rethinking the socio-political context of local literature in Hawai'i Seri Luangphinith; 23. Contemporary Asian American drama Esther Kim Lee; 24. 'More than you ever knew you knew': the rising prestige of fiction Tina Chen; 25. Asian American poetry and the politics of form Dorothy Wang; 26. The forgotten war in Korea Josephine Park; 27. The American war in Vietnam and its diasporas Anh Thang Dao-Shah and Isabelle Thuy Pelaud; 28. Refugee aesthetics: Cambodia, Laos, and the Hmong Cathy Schlund-Vials; 29. The 9/11 of our imagination: Islam, the figure of the Muslim, and the failed liberalism of the racial present Junaid Rana; 30. Narrating war: Arab and Muslim American aesthetics Samina Najmi; 31. Thick time and space: Karen Tei Yamashita's aesthetics Kandice Chuh; 32. New media Konrad Ng; 33. Beyond national literatures: empire and Amitav Ghosh Ruth Maxey.

Rajini Srikanth is Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She is the author of Constructing the Enemy: Empathy/Antipathy in US Literature and Law and winner of the Cultural Studies Book Award for The World Next Door: South Asian American Literature and the Idea of America. Min Hyoung Song is Professor of English at Boston College. He is the author of Strange Future: Pessimism and the 1992 Los Angeles Riots and winner of the ASAP Book Prize for The Children of 1965: On Writing and Not Writing as an Asian American.

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• 1. The origins of Chinese American autobiography Floyd Cheung; 2. Stage orientalism and Asian American performance from the 19th into the 20th century Josephine Lee; 3. 'I seek out poems now incomplete': writings from the Angel Island immigration station Sunn Shelley Wong; 4. The Eaton sisters and the figure of the Eurasian Jinhua Emma Teng; 5. Indian diasporic autobiography: new nations and new selves Sandhya Shukla; 6. Koreans in exile: Younghill Kang and Richard E. Kim Joseph Jeon; 7. Filipino and Filipina voices Denise Cruz; 8. Chinatown life as contested terrain: H. T. Chiang, Jade Snow Wong, and C. Y. Lee Patricia Chu; 9. Coded critique: Japanese American internment literature Traise Yamamoto; 10. Asian American short fiction and the contingencies of form, 1930s–1960s Jinqi Ling; 11. The Chicago School and the sociological imagination Cynthia Tolentino; 12. Documenting the third world student strike, the anti-war movement, and the emergence of second-wave feminism from Asian American perspectives Daryl Joji Maeda; 13. The art of the Asian American movement's social protest performance Lucy Burns; 14. Inventing identity: the manifestos of pioneering Asian American literature anthologies Donald Goellnicht; 15. Maxine Hong Kingston, feminism, and postmodern literature Stella Bolaki; 16. The emergence of Asian American literature as an academic field Viet Thanh Nguyen; 17. Theresa Hak-Kyung Cha and the impact of theory Timothy Yu; 18. Heterogeneity to multiplicity: building Asian American literary critique Anita Mannur and Allan Punzalan Isaac; 19. Whose Asias? Samir Dayal; 20. The South Asian American challenge Asha Nadkarni; 21. Contemporary Filipino American writers and the legacy of imperialism Eleanor Ty; 22. Beyond solitary confinement: rethinking the socio-political context of local literature in Hawai'i Seri Luangphinith; 23. Contemporary Asian American drama Esther Kim Lee; 24. 'More than you ever knew you knew': the rising prestige of fiction Tina Chen; 25. Asian American poetry and the politics of form Dorothy Wang; 26. The forgotten war in Korea Josephine Park; 27. The American war in Vietnam and its diasporas Anh Thang Dao-Shah and Isabelle Thuy Pelaud; 28. Refugee aesthetics: Cambodia, Laos, and the Hmong Cathy Schlund-Vials; 29. The 9/11 of our imagination: Islam, the figure of the Muslim, and the failed liberalism of the racial present Junaid Rana; 30. Narrating war: Arab and Muslim American aesthetics Samina Najmi; 31. Thick time and space: Karen Tei Yamashita's aesthetics Kandice Chuh; 32. New media Konrad Ng; 33. Beyond national literatures: empire and Amitav Ghosh Ruth Maxey.