Series Preface vii // Acknowledgements viii // Chronology ix // Introduction і // Some Thoughts on Ethnicity and Writing i // A History of Asian American Literature 7 // Asian American Canon Formation 17 // About this Book 20 // Chapter 1 American Ways of Looking, 1880S-1920s 26 // Contexts and Intertexts 26 // Yan Phou Lee, When I Was a Boy in China (1887) 34 // Winnifred Eaton and Edith Eaton, Selected // Short Stories (1900-15) 37 // Conclusion 44 // Chapter 2 We are America, 1930S-50S 50 // Contexts and Intertexts 50 // Carlos Bulosan, America Is in the Heart (1946) and Toshio Mori, Selected Short Stories (1949) 55 // Monica Sone, Nisei Daughter (1953), John Okada, // No-No Boy (1957) and Hisaye Yamamoto, Selected Short Stories (1949-51) 61 // Conclusion 67 // VI ASIAN AMERICAN LITERATURE // Chapter K Noise, Trouble and Backtalk, 1960S-70S 72 // Contexts and Intertexts 72 // Jade Snow Wong, Fifth Chinese Daughter (1950) // and Louis Chu, Eat a Bowl of Tea (1961) 76 // Frank Chin, The Chickencoop Chinaman (1972), // The Year of the Dragon (1974) and The Chinaman Pacific and Frisco R.R. Co. (1988) 80 // Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior (1976) and China Men (1980) 86 // Conclusion 101 // Chapter 4 Between Worlds, the 1980s 107 // Contexts and Intertexts 107 // Joy Kogawa, Obasan (1981) no // Maxine Hong Kingston, Tripmaster Monkey (1989) and David Henry Hwang, FOB (1979) and M. Butterfly (1988) 116 // Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club (1989) 121 // Bharati Mukherjee, Jasmine (1989) and Wendy // Law-Yone, The Coffin Tree (1983) 128 // Conclusion 137 // Chapter 5 Heterogeneity, Hybridity and Multiplicity, // the 1990s 143 // Contexts and Intertexts 143 // Refugee Literatures 146 // Lan Cao, Monkey Bridge (1997) 149 // Sky Lee, Disappearing Moon Café (1990) 155 // Mei Ng, Eating Chinese Food Naked (1998) 161 // Chang-rae Lee, Native Speaker (1995) 167 // Conclusion 171 //
Conclusion 177 // Student Resources 195 // Glossary 195 // Selected Electronic Resources 200 // Guide to Further Reading 204 // Index 216