Imagining the nation: Asian American literature and cultural consent

Abstract

Introduction: alienation, abjection, and Asian American citizenship Part I. Emergence: 1. Aiiieeeee! and the predicament of Asian American articulation 2. Can Maxine Hong Kingston speak? The contingency of The Woman Warrior Part II. Claiming America: 3. Canon, collaboration, and the corporeality of culture 4. American romances, immigrant incarnations Part III. Whither Asia: 5. Genes, generation, and geospiritual (be)longings 6. Eccentric homes: topography pedagogy, and memory Part IC. Representation Reconsidered: 7. The look, the act, the transvestic, and the transpirational Asian 8. Ethnic agency and the challenge of representation Conclusion: Asian American identity in difference and Diaspora Notes Index.

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