Ebook: Nation, race & history in Asian American literature: re-membering the body

Zamora proclaims our bodies as actual living texts, texts that are constantly bearing, contesting, and transforming meaning. Nation, Race & History in Asian American Literature will engage scholars interested in cultural and critical theory, citizenship and national identity, race and ethnicity, the body, gender studies, and transnational literature."--Jacket.;Acknowledgments -- 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 -- Close Readings -- 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 -- 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 -- The Collage in Jessia Hagedorn's Dogeaters: History and the Politics of Representation -- National Desire & the Erotics of Politics: Daisy Avila -- Aestheticization of Violence: Lolita Luna -- The Ascetic: Leonor Ledesma -- The Female Grotesque: Baby Alacran -- Conclusion -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography.