...Mark Chiang The Children of 1965: On Writing, and Not Writing, as an Asian American . By Song Min Hyoung . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2013 . 284 pp. Cloth , $84.95 ; paper , $23.95 ; e-book , $23.95 . Modern Minority: Asian American Literature and Everyday Life...

...Patricia E. Chu Partly Colored: Asian Americans and Racial Anomaly in the Segregated South . By Leslie Bow. New York: New York Univ. Press. 2010. x, 285 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $25.00. Ends of Empire: Asian American Critique and the Cold War . By Jodi Kim. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota...

...Kita Douglas Elda Tsou’s examination of “figurative activity” contributes to current disciplinary debates on the shaping of the aesthetic and the political in Asian American literature by considering classical rhetorical tropes in five field-shaping texts. Aligning with the critical push...

...Jeehyun Lim Ingratitude: The Debt-Bound Daughter in Asian American Literature . By Ninh Erin Khue . New York : New York Univ. Press . 2011 . vii, 205 pp. Cloth , $70.00 ; paper , $23.00 . How to Be South Asian in America: Narratives of Ambivalence and Belonging...

...Victor Bascara The Interethnic Imagination: Roots and Passages in Contemporary Asian American Fiction . By Caroline Rody. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2009. xx, 196 pp. $65.00. The Cultural Capital of Asian American Studies: Autonomy and Representation in the University . By Mark Chiang...

... extended by a careful look at how the practice of history is being simultaneously contested and reconstituted by the border-crossing migration of cultural traditions outside the Anglo-European mainstream. Stephen Knadler, Spelman College Asian/American: Historical Crossings of a Racial Frontier...

... bear witness to the traumatic and violent experiences of too many young Latinos and Latinas. Her study is an intelligent consideration of these important testimonies. Rafael Pérez-Torres, University of California, Los Angeles National Abjection: The Asian American Body Onstage. By Karen Shimakawa...

... of New Hampshire Tseng 2000.8.30 14:28 OCV:0 Book Reviews 657 Immigrant Subjectivities in Asian American and Asian Diaspora Literatures.By Sheng-mei Ma...

...Sonnet Retman Race for Citizenship: Black Orientalism and Asian Uplift from Pre-Emancipation to Neoliberal America . By Jun Helen Heran . New York : New York Univ. Press . 2011 . x , 198 pp. Paper , $22.00 . Modeling Citizenship: Jewish and Asian American Writing...

.... Claire Fox, University of Iowa DOI 10.1215/00029831-3149501 Racial Asymmetries: Asian American Fictional Worlds. By Stephen Hong Sohn. New York: New York Univ. Press. 2014. 288 pp. Paper, $27.00. Thinking Its Presence: Form, Race, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Asian Amer- ican Poetry...

...Yoonmee Chang 2005 Tell This Silence: Asian American Women Writers and the Politics of Speech . By Patti Duncan. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2004. xvi, 274 pp. $34.95; Crossing Cultures: Creating Identity in Chinese and Jewish American Literature .By Judith Oster. Columbia...

...George Uba 2006 Afro-Orientalism . By Bill V. Mullen. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2004. xliv, 240 pp. Cloth, $56.95; paper, $18.95. Consumption and Identity in Asian American Coming-of-Age Novels . By Jennifer Ann Ho. New York: Routledge. 2005. 202 pp. $75.00...

...Christine So © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 Beyond Literary Chinatown . By Jeffrey F. L. Partridge. Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press. 2007. xvii, 246 pp. Paper, $24.95. The Hypersexuality of Race: Performing Asian/American Women on Screen and Scene . By Celine...

...Maria Damon © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Race and the Avant-Garde: Experimental and Asian American Poetry since 1965 . By Timothy Yu. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2009. xi, 192 pp. $45.00. Poetic Obligation: Ethics in Experimental American Poetry after 1945...

... incarcerates Native Americans, Pacific Islanders, Southeast Asians, and Latinos. I believe that we will misunderstand aspects not only of incar- ceration generally, but also of black incarceration specifically without more intersectional and comparative frameworks. Michael Hames-García, University...

... DOI 10.1215/00029831-2010-079 Economic Citizens: A Narrative of Asian American Visibility. By Christine So. Phila- delphia: Temple Univ. Press. 2007. x, 178 pp. Cloth, $49.00; paper, $26.95. Border Fictions: Globalization, Empire, and Writing at the Boundaries of the United States...

...Sarah Schiff Interracial Encounters: Reciprocal Representations in African and Asian American Literatures, 1896–1937 . By Lee Julia H. . New York : New York Univ. Press . 2011 . ix , 219 pp. Cloth , $75.00 ; paper , $23.00 . The Trouble with Sauling Around: Conversion...

... Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America. By David L. Eng. Dur- ham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2001. viii, 290 pp. Cloth, $54.95; paper, $18.95. Reimagining the American Pacific: From ‘‘South Pacific’’ to Bamboo Ridge...

... Kingston connects the Asian American ex- perience with the economic, social, and cultural history of the American West in The Woman Warrior and Tripmaster Monkey. Other writers, like Louise Erd- rich and Leslie Silko, expose the dangers to Native Americans of clinging to nostalgic tropes of nature...

... of recognition, and whose theories can best explain that exciting body of lit- erature. Daryl Cumber Dance, University of Richmond Narrating Nationalisms: Ideology and Form in Asian American Literature...