Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-202) and index.
Contents
Sexual Orients and the American National Imaginary -- Mimic Modernity: "Madame Butterfly" and the Erotics of Informal Empire -- Eugenic Romances of American Nationhood -- Engendering the Hybrid Nation -- Unincorporated Territories of Desire: Hypercorporeality and Miscegenation in Carlos Bulosan's Writings -- Sex Acts as Assimilation Acts: Female Power and Passing in Bharati Mukherjee's Wife and Jasmine.