Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-237) and index.
Contents
Literary Chinatown: dynamics of race and reading -- What is an ethnic author? -- The politics of ethnic authorship: Li-Young Lee, Emerson, and Whitman at the banquet table -- Claiming diaspora in Shirley Geok-lin Lim's Joss and gold -- Changing signifiers and changing horizons: baseball in three stories by David Wong Louie -- Change and the playful reader: reading Shawn Wong's American Knees -- Beyond multicultural: cultural hybridity in the novels of Gish Jen.