Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-218) and index.
Contents
Visuality, Representation, and the Gaze -- Writing Historiographic Autoethnography: Denise Chong's The Concubine's Children -- A Filipino Prufrock in an Alien Land: Bienvenido Santos's The Man Who (Thought He) Looked Like Robert Taylor -- Rescripting Hollywood: Performativity and Ethnic Identity in Mina Shum's Double Happiness -- Transformations Through the Sensual -- To Make Sense of Differences: Communities, Texts, and Bodies in Shirley Geok-lin Lim's Among the White Moon Faces -- 'Some Memories Live Only on Your Tongue': Recalling Tastes, Reclaiming Desire in Amy Tan's The Kitchen God's Wife -- 'Each Story Brief and Sad and Marvellous': Multiple Voices in Wayson Choy's The Jade Peony -- Invisible Minorities in Asian America -- 'Never Again Be the Yvonne of Yesterday': Personal and Collective Loss in Cecilia Brainard's When the Rainbow Goddess Wept -- 'Thrumming Songs of Ecstasy': Female Voices in Hiromi Goto's Chorus of Mushrooms -- 'On the Fence That Was Never Finished': Borderline Filipino Existence in Bino Realuyo's The Umbrella Country.
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