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| Series Preface | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Chronology | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Some Thoughts on Ethnicity and Writing | |
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| A History of Asian American Literature | |
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| Asian American Canon Formation | |
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| About this Book | |
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| American Ways of Looking, 1880s-1920s | |
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| Contexts and Intertexts | |
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| Yan Phou Lee, When I Was a Boy in China (1887) | |
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| Winnifred Eaton and Edith Eaton, Selected Short Stories (1900-15) | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| We are America, 1930s-50s | |
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| Contexts and Intertexts | |
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| Carlos Bulosan, America Is in the Heart (1946) and Toshio Mori, Selected Short Stories (1949) | |
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| Monica Sone, Nisei Daughter (1953), John Okada, No-No Boy (1957) and Hisaye Yamamoto, Selected Short Stories (1949-51) | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Noise, Trouble and Backtalk, 1960s-70s | |
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| Contexts and Intertexts | |
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| Jade Snow Wong, Fifth Chinese Daughter (1950) and Louis Chu, Eat a Bowl of Tea (1961) | |
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| Frank Chin, The Chickencoop Chinaman (1972), The Year of the Dragon (1974) and The Chinaman Pacific and Frisco R.R. Co. (1988) | |
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| Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior (1976) and China Men (1980) | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Between Worlds, the 1980s | |
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| Contexts and Intertexts | |
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| Joy Kogawa, Obasan (1981) | |
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| Maxine Hong Kingston, Tripmaster Monkey (1989) and David Henry Hwang, FOB (1979) and M. Butterfly (1988) | |
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| Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club (1989) | |
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| Bharati Mukherjee, Jasmine (1989) and Wendy Law-Yone, The Coffin Tree (1983) | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Heterogeneity, Hybridity and Multiplicity, the 1990s | |
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| Contexts and Intertexts | |
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| Refugee Literatures | |
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| Lan Cao, Monkey Bridge (1997) | |
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| Sky Lee, Disappearing Moon Cafe (1990) | |
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| Mei Ng, Eating Chinese Food Naked (1998) | |
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| Chang-rae Lee, Native Speaker (1995) | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Student Resources | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Selected Electronic Resources | |
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| Guide to Further Reading | |
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| Index | |