TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments ix
CHAPTER ONE: Asian American Literature and its Discontents: The Body, The Nation
Manila’s Centennial
Bodies in Limbo
A Look at the Workings of Nationalism
American Ideals and Pragmatics
Three Close Readings
CHAPTER TWO: Artifice in David Henry Hwang’s M. Butterfly: Sexuality, Race, and the Seduction of Theater
Race and Sexuality
Erotics and Seduction
Artifice and Trickery
Conclusion
CHAPTER THREE: The Rope in Lois-Ann Yamanaka’s Blu’s Hanging: Self-Representation and Survival
The Controversy Over Blu’s Hanging
The Body
The “Beyond”
The Rope
A Cartography of Scars
Survival
Conclusion
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