Imagining the nation : Asian American literature and cultural consent / David Leiwei Li.

Introduction: alienation, abjection, and Asian American citizenship
Aiiieeeee! and the predicament of Asian American articulation
Can Maxine Hong Kingston speak? the contingency of The Woman Warrior
Canon, collaboration, and the corporeality of culture
American romances, immigrant incarnations
Genes, generation, and geospiritual (be)longings
Eccentric homes: topography, pedagogy, and memory
The look, the act, the transvestic, and the transpirational Asian
Ethnic agency and the challenge of representation
Conclusion: Asian American identity in difference and diaspora.