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 · · · · · · (收起)