Asian American Literary Studies

Introducing Ethnic Studies General Editor: Robert Con Davis-Undiano, Neustadt Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Oklahoma Providing the latest and the best of what is being thought in Ethnic Studies, this series is directed toward literary studies and particularly American Studies but also covers interdisciplinary topics appropriate to cultural studies and traditional area comparative studies, including material culture. Each volume provides a comprehensive introduction to the topics that are raised in discussions about ethnicity in contemporary culture. Asian American Literary Studies Edited by Guiyou Huang This volume presents global perspectives on Asian American literature by accomplished scholars from Germany, Japan, Singapore, Spain, and the US. It covers a diverse range of interdisciplinary topics in contemporary Asian American Studies across a wide spectrum of ethnic groups: Burmese, Chinese, Filipino, Indian, Japanese, Korean, Malaysian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan, and Vietnamese. production of Asian American literary works, and the agency of the self in the life writings of Asian American autobiographers. Section II examines the confines of binary oppositions of gender, as well as issues of pan-ethnicity and gender relations. Section III explores the role that performance, film, and language play in the definition of self-identity and in ethnic empowerment. Five intrinsically connected themes run through all sections: gender roles; stereotyping; identity politics; intersections of literature, history, family, and the self; and the impact of wars on Asian American culture and literature. The chapters illuminate each other by discussing ideas and issues that are the enlargements of other, related themes and topics.