.... It was Korea, they remind us, that provided the rationale for building a permanent standing military and a global network of more than seven hundred military installations around the world. Those mining this history include some of the most acclaimed American novelists writing today: Ha Jin in War Trash ( 2004...

... into this comprehensive study, building to the final chapter’s turn toward narratives of Asian immigration by Vietnamese-American writers Monique Truong and Lan Cao and Chinese-American Ha Jin. Crucial to Bone’s framing, this chapter more fully opens up the concerns of the book beyond the black-white binary...

...- or underrepresent their racial counterparts. Through the characters’ delimited and deformed frame of recognition, both novels document how Afro-Asian antagonism has already been neutralized and naturalized in their everyday lives. Hyun Jin and Frank testify to how historical, social, and cultural structures define...

... Multi- culturalisms. By Wen Jin. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press. 2012. xvii, 224 pp. Cloth, $52.95; CD, $14.95. As the fastest growing racial minority in the United States, the population of Asian Americans continues to expand and diversify. Asian American literary studies has experienced...

... . Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . Jin Ha . 2005 . War Trash . New York : Vintage . Keller Nora Okja . 2002 . Fox Girl . New York : Viking . Kim Daniel Y. 2009 . “ ‘Bled In, Letter by Letter”: Translation, Postmemory, and the Subject of Korean War: History in Susan...

... of all the texts that Magosaki chooses to discuss contain (incidentally, or not so incidentally) food: Jessica Hagedorn’s Pet Food and Tropical Apparitions (1975), Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange (1997), Monique Truong’s The Book of Salt (2003), and Min Jin Lee’s Free Food for Millionaires...

...—Washington Irving, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—and the Western literary influences on their Chinese contemporaries—Yung Wing, Dong Xun, Qiu Jin—Da concludes that their diverse cross-cultural work generally results in nationalist values. Irving’s invocation of Henry Hudson’s Northwest...

... human language a sort of natural artifice, whose forms and functions originate in nature but also attain some autonomy from it. This reformulation has ethical significance, since the play of difference and similarity in poetic form “restrains language from imposing itself on the natural world...

... . 2017 . “ Dwelling over China: Minor Transnationalisms in Karen Tei Yamashita’s I Hotel .” American Quarterly 69 , no. 3 : 719 – 39 . Xiang Sunny . 2018 . “ Race, Tone, and Ha Jin’s ‘Documentary Manner.’ ” Comparative Literature 70 , no. 1 : 72 – 92 . Yamashita Karen Tei...

... almost all American literary ethnicity has been construed which Lee’s study primes for genealogical revision (3). In Urban Triage, James Kyung-Jin Lee cuts across representative articula- tions of multiculturalism—Asian American, Chicano, and African American— also to arrive at the emergence...

... almost all American literary ethnicity has been construed which Lee’s study primes for genealogical revision (3). In Urban Triage, James Kyung-Jin Lee cuts across representative articula- tions of multiculturalism—Asian American, Chicano, and African American— also to arrive at the emergence...

... with the current open-border policy that has allowed tens of millions of illegal immigrants to cross our southern border. The fugitive slaves were met at the northern terminals of the Underground Railroad and given low-paying jobs with the understanding that if they tried to organize for better work conditions...

... almost all American literary ethnicity has been construed which Lee’s study primes for genealogical revision (3). In Urban Triage, James Kyung-Jin Lee cuts across representative articula- tions of multiculturalism—Asian American, Chicano, and African American— also to arrive at the emergence...

.... The book was completed before the airborne ter- rorist attacks on 11 September 2001, but Simpson includes an epilogue that links the book’s historical analysis with current events. The 1850 ‘‘Fugitive Slave Law for example, is equated with the current open-border policy that has allowed tens...

... was completed before the airborne ter- rorist attacks on 11 September 2001, but Simpson includes an epilogue that links the book’s historical analysis with current events. The 1850 ‘‘Fugitive Slave Law for example, is equated with the current open-border policy that has allowed tens of millions of illegal...

... with the current open-border policy that has allowed tens of millions of illegal immigrants to cross our southern border. The fugitive slaves were met at the northern terminals of the Underground Railroad and given low-paying jobs with the understanding that if they tried to organize for better work conditions...

... almost all American literary ethnicity has been construed which Lee’s study primes for genealogical revision (3). In Urban Triage, James Kyung-Jin Lee cuts across representative articula- tions of multiculturalism—Asian American, Chicano, and African American— also to arrive at the emergence...

... almost all American literary ethnicity has been construed which Lee’s study primes for genealogical revision (3). In Urban Triage, James Kyung-Jin Lee cuts across representative articula- tions of multiculturalism—Asian American, Chicano, and African American— also to arrive at the emergence...

... in this critical tapestry is culturally constituted whiteness, the ‘‘not-so-secret sharer in the setting of terms whereby almost all American literary ethnicity has been construed which Lee’s study primes for genealogical revision (3). In Urban Triage, James Kyung-Jin Lee cuts across representative articula...

... in this critical tapestry is culturally constituted whiteness, the ‘‘not-so-secret sharer in the setting of terms whereby almost all American literary ethnicity has been construed which Lee’s study primes for genealogical revision (3). In Urban Triage, James Kyung-Jin Lee cuts across representative articula...