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Keith Lawrence is Associate Professor of English at Brigham Young University.Floyd Cheung is Assistant Professor of English and American Studies at Smith College.Contributors: Suzanne Arakawa; Georgina Dodge; Augusto Espiritu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Warren D. Hoffman; Stephen Knadler, Spelman College; Josephine Lee, University of Minnesota; Julia H. Lee; Viet Nguyen, University of Southern California; David Shih, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire; John Streamas, Washington State University; Pamela Thoma, Colby College; and the editors.
List of contents
Introduction - Keith Lawrence and Floyd Cheung; Early Chinese American Autobiography: Reconsidering the Works of Yan Phou Lee and Yung Wing - Floyd Cheung; The Self and Generic Convention: Winnifred Eaton's Me, A Book of Remembrance - David Shih; Diasporic Literature and Identity in A Daughter of the Samurai - Georgina Dodge; The Capitalist and Imperialist Critique in H. T. Tsiang's And China Has Hands - Julia H. Lee; Unacquiring Negrophobia: Younghill Kang and the Cosmopolitan Resistance to the Black and White Logic of Naturalization - Stephen Knadler; Asian American (Im)mobility: Perspectives on the College Plays 1937-1955 - Josephine Lee; Toyo Suyemoto and the Landscape of Justice - John Streamas; Wounded Bodies and the Cold War: Freedom, Materialism, and Revolution in Asian American Literature, 1946-1957 - Viet Nguyen; Shades of Absence and Presence in Internment-Themed Literature: Dissent in the West Coast Narratives of John Okada and Toshio Mori - Suzanne Arakawa; Richard Kim, Toshio Mori, and Allegories of Masculine Identity and Place - Keith Lawrence; Writing "Home" from the Margins: Memory, History, and Text in Monica Sone's Nisei Daughter - Warren D. Hoffman; The "Pre-History" of an "Asian American" Writer: N.V.M. Gonzalez' Allegory of Decolonization - Augusto Espiritu; Representing Korean American Female Subjects, Negotiating Multiple Americas, and Reading Beyond the Ending in Ronyoung Kim's Clay Walls - Pamela Thoma
Summary
Employs contemporary and traditional readings of representative works of prose, poetry, and drama to establish the ongoing significance of these works to the American literary canon.
