Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-227) and index.
Contents
Introduction : "a city of words" -- America in the heart : political desire in Younghill Kang, Carlos Bulosan, Milton Murayama, and John Okada -- Authoring subjects : Frank Chin and David Mura -- Womens' plots : Edith Maude Eaton and Bharati Mukherjee -- "That was China, that was their fate" : ethnicity and agency in The joy luck club -- Tripmaster monkey, Frank Chin, and the Chinese heroic tradition -- Coda : "What we should become, what we were".