Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-218) and index
Visuality, Representation, and the Gaze -- - Writing Historiographic Autoethnography: Denise Chong's The Concubine's Children -- - A Filipino Prufrock in an Alien Land: Bienvenido Santos's The Man Who (Thought He) Looked Like Robert Taylor -- - Rescripting Hollywood: Performativity and Ethnic Identity in Mina Shum's Double Happiness -- - Transformations Through the Sensual -- - To Make Sense of Differences: Communities, Texts, and Bodies in Shirley Geok-lin Lim's Among the White Moon Faces -- - 'Some Memories Live Only on Your Tongue': Recalling Tastes, Reclaiming Desire in Amy Tan's The Kitchen God's Wife -- - 'Each Story Brief and Sad and Marvellous': Multiple Voices in Wayson Choy's The Jade Peony -- - Invisible Minorities in Asian America -- - 'Never Again Be the Yvonne of Yesterday': Personal and Collective Loss in Cecilia Brainard's When the Rainbow Goddess Wept -- - 'Thrumming Songs of Ecstasy': Female Voices in Hiromi Goto's Chorus of Mushrooms -- - 'On the Fence That Was Never Finished': Borderline Filipino Existence in Bino Realuyo's The Umbrella Country
