John Bender is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Stanford University. He is author of Spenser and Literary Pictorialism and Imagining the Penitentiary: Fiction and Architecture of Mind in Eighteenth-Century England, co-editor of The Ends of Rhetoric and Chronotypes: The Construction of Time, and associate editor of The Columbia History of the British Novel. Simon Stern is completing a study of literary property and professional authorship in eighteenth- century England, focusing on Henry and Sarah Fielding.
Introduction: A Crisis of Representation
1. On the Origins of Asian American Literature: The Eaton Sisters and the Hybrid Body
2. Wounded Bodies and the Cold War: Freedom, Materialism, and Revolution in Asian American Literature, 1946-1957
3. The Remasculinization of Chinese America: Race, Violence, and the Novel
4. Representing Reconciliation: Le Ly Hayslip and the Emblematic Victim
5. Queer Bodies and Subaltern Spectators: Guerrilla Theater, Hollywood Melodrama, and the Filipino (American) Novel
Conclusion: Model Minorities and Bad Subjects
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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