Table of Contents: Assimilating Asians :

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Chu, Patricia P.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2000.
Series:	New Americanists
Subjects and Genres:	American literature > Women authors > History and criticism. National characteristics, American, in literature. Assimilation (Sociology) in literature. Women and literature > United States. Asian Americans in literature. Group identity in literature. Authorship > Sex differences. Bildungsroman. American literature > Asian American authors > History and criticism.
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Table of Contents:

Introduction: "a city of words"
America in the heart: political desire in Younghill Kang, Carlos Bulosan, Milton Murayama, and John Okada
Authoring subjects: Frank Chin and David Mura
Womens' plots: Edith Maude Eaton and Bharati Mukherjee
"That was China, that was their fate": ethnicity and agency in The joy luck club
Tripmaster monkey, Frank Chin, and the Chinese heroic tradition
Coda: "What we should become, what we were".