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Book SynopsisThis volume presents global perspectives on Asian American literature by accomplished scholars from Germany, Japan, Singapore, Spain, and the US. It covers a diverse range of interdisciplinary topics in contemporary Asian American Studies across a wide spectrum of ethnic groups.
Table of ContentsTABLE 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; - Rocio 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.
