Acknowledgements Introduction:
Unfinalizing the Aiiieeeee! Moment: A Historicist View of the Field
Chapter One
Race, Gender, and Class: Overlapping Formations
--Centering Gender--Exploration of Sexuality--Essentialism and Difference--Race and Class RevisitedChapter Two
The Necessity and Fiction of “Asian America”
--Cultural Nationalism--Beyond Pan-Asian Ethnicity--Comparative Race and Ethnicity Studies --Rethinking Asian American SpecificityChapter Three
Intercultural and Generational Concerns
--Writing Immigrants --Cultural Translation
--Model Minority and the Paradox of Assimilation--Breaking the TraditionChapter Four
The Transnational Turn
--Planetary Presence--The Asia-Pacific Investment--Cautions and Dissonances--Locating the Historical ReferentChapter Five
The Social Function of Literature
--Cognitive Uses of Language--Community-Based Self-Representation--Controversies--Debating ResistanceChapter Six
Aesthetic Form
--Form after New Criticism
--Legacies and Practices--Reinventing Realist Genres--Poetic and Theatrical StudiesChapter Seven
Protocols and the Politics of Institutionalization
--Reading Formations--Periodization--Methodological Challenge--Post-identity Subjects Chapter Eight
Emerging Interests
--Food Studies --Militarization, Critical Refugee Studies, and Ecocriticism --Speculative Literature --Digital Humanities and New MediaConclusion
Anti-essentialist Critique and the Asian American Literary Profession
Notes Bibliography Index