... the controversy around Yamanaka’s work to “teach the conflicts” of literary studies. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Blu’s Hanging Lois-Ann Yamanaka Association for Asian American Studies controversy Hawai’i Filipino American Japanese sexual predation close reading Works Cited Chan...

.... In light of what we know about Norcom’s sexual predation of Jacobs from her auto­ biography, we can read between the lines of his advertisement and see that it is untrue that Jacobs fled “without any known cause or provocation.” Stu- dents are able to see very clearly the difference between...

... Intimacy  325 normative sexuality as constitutive of subcultural sexual identities may be overly reductive. Indeed, Chauncey notes that several texts that predate the coining of the term homosexual in fact “challeng[e] the assumption . . . that the appearance of the homosexual...

..., the poet becomes a cigarette-smoking, gin-drinking, skinny- dipping femme fatale who prompts the singer to wish I had a Sylvia Plath. In Birthday Letters, Hughes (1998: 15) gazes at her long, perfect, American legs that simply went on up. This sexual allure would become another point of discussion...

... of marginalizing the pro- duction and representation of ethnicity in modernist cycles, ignoring cycles that predate and fall between these markers, and implying that contemporary cycles matter only inasmuch as they treat ethnicity. Putting these cycles in conversation and breaking the binary attends...