Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-249) and index.
Contents
The melancholy of race -- Beauty and ideal citizenship: inventing Asian America in Rogers and Hammerstein's Flower Drum Song (1961) -- A fable of exquisite corpses: Maxine Hong Kingston, assimilation, and the hypochondriacal response -- Fantasy's repulsion and investment: David Henry Hwang and Ralph Ellison -- History in/against the fragment: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha -- Difficult loves: Anna Deavere Smith and the politics of grief