...Chih-ming Wang In honor of the late Masao Miyoshi, whose work has opened a transpacific dimension in Asian American studies, this essay first explores the notion of asymmetry, which is seminal to his critical vision, to build an analytical framework for understanding and evaluating...

...Susan Koshy Duke University Press 2001 Morphing Race into Ethnicity: Asian Americans and Critical Transformations of Whiteness Susan Koshy The meaning of Caucasian as at one time prevalent has been now...

... Walt Whitman and his structural echoes of American first-person narratives such as Moby-Dick, The Great Gatsby, All the King's Men , and Invisible Man , Lee troubles the autoethnographic mode that he employs, in common with other important Asian American writings. Lee's work combines imaginative...

... into a contemporary world-system that Cedric Robinson and others have called “racial capitalism.” © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 Asian American experimental poetry avant-garde comparative racialization racial capitalism References Appadurai Arjun . 1996 . Modernity at Large: Cultural...

... in the Latin American, African, and Asian spaces, which she mentions only in passing as cautionary tales where boundless sympathy (what are sometimes casually referred to as “good intentions”) would not only lead one astray but justify and lead to the undermining of law and thereby be “foredoomed”—a word she...

... knowledge of the Chinese language, and without the community of a Chinatown or a suburban Asian American com- munity. His condition of exile, however, has proved to be immensely produc- tive of emotional intensity and imagination, and his poetics derives largely from his ontological condition...

... project entitled Agonies of Historicity. Susan Koshy is an assistant professor in the Asian American Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her articles on whiteness, racial forma- tion, ethnicity, neocolonialism, and globalization have appeared in the Yale Journal...

..., Justice. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014. Sharma, Sarah. In the Meantime: Temporality and Cultural Politics. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014. Sohn, Stephen Hong. Racial Asymmetries: Asian American Fictional Worlds. New York: New York University Press, 2014. Sommer, Doris. The Work...

... 2002 Contributors Ryan Bishop is Senior Research Fellow in English Language and Literature and American Studies at the National University of Singapore. He is coauthor with Greg Clancey of ‘‘The City as Target in Postcolonial Urbanism: Southeast Asian Cities and Global Processes (ed...

... of English and comparative literature and chair of the Department of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Author of Diasporic Mediations: Between Home and Location (1996), Theory in an Uneven World (2003), and History, the Human, and the World Between (Duke Univer- sity Press...

..., 2005. Zhou, Xiaojing, and Samina Najmi, eds. Form and Transformation in Asian Ameri- can Literature. The Scott and Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005. Žižek, Slavoj. Interrogating the Real. Ed. Rex Butler and Scott Stephens. New York...

... that argued that the author’s own identity—Korean American or Asian American, in her case—was so unique that no one from other ethni- cities—even the Koreans—could “adopt” or understand it. It is obviously a difficult argument to sustain: how could she presume a commonality among all members...

... program. He is completing a book entitled American Studies After the New Americanists. In the fall of 2007–2008, Pease was Guest Professor in North American Studies at the Freie Universitaet, Berlin. R. Radhakrishnan is professor of English, Asian American studies, and compara- tive literature...

... comparative study of contemporary Black and Asian American experimental poetry. Helen Deutsch is a professor of English and director of the Center for 17th- & 18th- Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library at UCLA. The author of Resemblance and Disgrace: Alexander Pope...

...- ing Identities in Asian American Literature. Benjamin Zephaniah is a well-known poet, novelist, and playwright. In 2001, Blood- axe published Too Black, Too Strong. In 2003, he turned down an invitation to accept the honor of the position of Officer of the Order of British Empire (OBE) award. Zhao...

... is the author of Asian/American: Historical Crossings of a Racial Frontier (1999) and has published widely on issues of theory and society, race and ethnicity, and literary and cultural studies. He is currently working on a book that treats economic and liter- ary approaches to human behavior. He is also...

...: A Surrealist History. Prince- ton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013. Shaw, Lytle. Fieldworks: From Place to Site in Postwar Poetics. Tuscaloosa: Univer- sity of Alabama Press, 2013. Song, Min Hyoung. The Children of 1965: On Writing, and Not Writing, as an Asian American. Durham, NC: Duke University...

.... Paralax Visions: Making Sense of American–East Asian Relations at the End of the Century. Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1999. Danesi, Marcel. Of Cigarettes...

.... Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2010. Seth, Vanita. Europe’s Indians: Producing Racial Difference, 1500–1900. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2010. Books Received 233 Sharma, Natasha Tamar. Hip Hop Desis: South Asian Americans...

... and Theory. London and New York: Cassell, 1999. Buchanan, Ian, ed. A Deleuzian Century. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1999. Burt, Richard. Unspeakable ShaXXXspeare’s: Queer Theory and American Kiddie...