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""TABLE OF CONTENTS""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""CHAPTER ONE""; ""Manila�s Centennial""; ""Bodies in Limbo""; ""A Look at the Workings of Nationalism""; ""American Ideals and Pragmatics""; ""Three Close Readings""; ""CHAPTER TWO""; ""Race and Sexuality""; ""Erotics and Seduction""; ""Artifice and Trickery""; ""Conclusion""; ""CHAPTER THREE""; ""The Controversy Over""; ""The Body""; ""The “Beyond�""; ""The Rope""; ""A Cartography of Scars""; ""Survival""; ""Conclusion""; ""CHAPTER FOUR""; ""National Desire & the Erotics of Politics: Daisy Avila""
""Aestheticization of Violence: Lolita Luna""""The Ascetic: Leonor Ledesma""; ""The Female Grotesque: Baby Alacran""; ""Conclusion""; ""CHAPTER FIVE""; ""NOTES""; ""CHAPTER ONE: Asian American Literature and its Discontents: The Body, The Nation""; ""CHAPTER TWO: Artifice in David Henry Hwang�s Sexuality, Race, and the Seduction of""; ""Theater""; ""CHAPTER""; ""THREE:""; ""The Rope in Lois-Ann Yamanaka�s Self- Representation and Survival""; ""CHAPTER""; ""FOUR: The Collage in Jessia Hagedorn�s History and the Politics of Representation""; ""BIBLIOGRAPHY""