"Engrossing to...those studying American literature and its evolution, and those involved in ethnic studies programs." -- The Bookwatch
Chapter 1 Identity in Community in Ethnic Short Story Cycles: Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club, Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine, Gloria Naylor's The Women of Brewster Place, Rocío G. Davis; Chapter 2 Marking Race/Marketing Race: African American Short Fiction and the Politics of Genre, 1933-1946, Bill Mullen; Chapter 3 Womanist Storytelling: The Voice of the Vernacular, Madelyn Jablon; Chapter 4 A Minor Revolution: Chicano/a Composite Novels and the Limits of Genre, Margot Kelley; Chapter 5 Resistance and Reinvention in Sandra Cisneros' Woman Hollering Creek, Susan E. Griffin; Chapter 6 Healing Ceremonies: Native American Stories of Cultural Survival, Linda Palmer; Chapter 7 Asian American Short Stories: Dialogizing the Asian American Experience, Qun Wang; Chapter 8 The Invention of Normality in Japanese American Internment Narratives, John Streamas; Chapter 9 No Types of Ambiguity: Teaching Chinese American Texts in Hong Kong, Hardy C. Wilcoxon; Chapter 10 “Wavering” Images: Mixed-Race Identity in the Stories of Edith Eaton/Sui Sin Far, Carol Roh-Spaulding; Chapter 11 Resistance and Reclamation: Hawaii “Pidgin English” and Autoethnography in the Short Stories of Darrell H. Y. Lum, Gail Y. Okawa; Chapter 12 Conflict over Privacy in Indo-American Short Fiction, Laurie Leach; Chapter 13 Re-Orienting the Subject: Arab American Ethnicity in Ramzi M. Salti's The Native Informant: Six Tales of Defiance from the Arab World, Chris Wise; Chapter 14 The Naming of Katz: Who Am I? Who Am I Supposed to Be? Who Can I Be? Passing, Assimilation, and Embodiment in Short Fiction by Fannie Hurst and Thyra Samter Winslow with a Few Jokes Thrown in and Various References to Other Others, Susan Koppelman;