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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn examining these cross-cultural collaborations between Asian and Asian American authors and their mostly white U.S. editors and publishers Trickster-Cosmopolitanism adds what's missing from the current scholarship on the publishing history of Asian American writing. -- -Donald E. Pease Dartmouth College "A timely and groundbreaking study of Asian American literary production in the age of globalization. Through the double lenses of textual analysis and publication history, it sheds new light on what Magosaki calls 'trickster cosmopolitanism,' an interesting term she develops from 'Signifying' as defined in Afro-American literary history and applies to her study of the work of Asian American women writers. Tricksters Cosmopolitanism is a unique book that makes important contribution to Asian American literature and global and feminist studies." -- -Yunte Huang University of California, Santa Barbara
Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1 Trickster Poetics at the Turn of the Century: Charles Chesnutt, Sui Sin Far, and Allies in the East Coast Publishing Industry (1) Locating Trickster Poetics Charles Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman and Walter Hines Page (2) Silence as Signifying Sui Sin Far's Short Stories, The Independent, and William Hayes Ward Chapter 2 The Making of the Cosmopolitan Subject: Jessica Hagedorn, San Francisco, and Multiculturalism in the Age of Globalization (1) San Francisco's Avant-Garde Literary Scene Yardbird Publishing, Shameless Hussey Press, and Third World Communications (2) A Star is Born Narrative Construction of the Cosmopolitan Subject in Jessica Hagedorn's "Pet Food" (3) The Death of the Artist Narrative Construction of the Cosmopolitan Subject in Jessica Hagedorn's "Pet Food," Side B (4) Stephen Vincent, Momo's Press, and the Crafting of "Pet Food" Chapter 3 L.A.-Paris-N.Y: Karen Tei Yamashita, Monique Truong, Min Jin Lee, and the Changing Parameters of Literary Production at the New Turn of the Century (1) L.A. Vie En Orange Animating the Global South in Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange (1998) (2) The Impossible Book Identifying the Imperial-Colonial Register in Monique Truong's The Book of Salt (2004) (3) Chick Lit Goes to Wall Street Min Jin Lee's Free Food for Millionaires (2006) Acknowledgements
