Introduction: Unfinalizing the Aiiieeeee! moment: a historicist view of the field
Race, gender, and class: overlapping formations
The necessity and fiction of "Asian America"
Intercultural and generational concerns
The transnational turn
The social function of literature
Aesthetic form
Protocols and the politics of institutionalization
Emerging interests
Conclusion: Anti-essentialist critique and the Asian American literary profession.