Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-207) and index
Introduction: Theorizing Gendered Constructions of Ethnic and National Collectivity -- - To Enjoy Being a Girl: Sexuality and Partial Citizenship -- - The Triumph of the Prefeminist Chinese Woman?: Incorporating Racial Difference Through Feminist Narrative -- - Third World Testimony in the Era of Globalization: Le Ly Hayslip's Bad (Girl) Karma and the Art of Neutrality -- - The Gendered Subject of Human Rights: Domestic Infidelity in Irrawaddy Tango and The Scent of the Gods -- - Afterword: Multiplying Loyalties
Asian American women have long dealt with charges of betrayal within and beyond their communities. Images of their "disloyalty" pervade American culture, from the daughter who is branded a traitor to family for adopting American ways, to the war bride who immigrates in defiance of her countrymen, to a figure such as Yoko Ono, accused of breaking up the Beatles with her "seduction" of John Lennon. Leslie Bow here explores how representations of females transgressing the social order play out in literature by Asian American women. Questions of ethnic belonging, sexuality, identification, and pol
