Asian North American Identities: Beyond the Hyphen

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Asian North American Identities E D I T E D B Y E L E A N OR T Y A N D D ON A L D C . G O E L L N I C H T Asian North American Identities Beyond the Hyphen INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS Bloomington and Indianapolis This book is a publication of Indiana University Press 601 North Morton Street Bloomington, IN 47404-3797 USA http://iupress.indiana.edu Telephone orders 800-842-6796 Fax orders 812-855-7931 Orders by e-mail iuporder@indiana.edu© 2004 by Indiana University Press All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. The Association of American University Presses’ Resolution on Permissions constitutes the only exception to this prohibition. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Asian North American identities : beyond the hyphen / edited by Eleanor Ty and Donald C. Goellnicht. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-253-34380-1 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 0-253-21661-3 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. American literature—Asian American authors—History and criticism. 2. Canadian literature—Asian authors—History and criticism. 3. Assimilation (Sociology) in literature. 4. Asians—Canada—Intellectual life. 5. Asian Americans—Intellectual life. 6. Identity (Psychology) in literature. 7. Asian Americans in literature . 8. Group identity in literature. 9. Ethnicity in literature. 10. Race in literature. I. Ty, Eleanor Rose, date II. Goellnicht, Donald C., date PS153.A84A86 2004 810.9′895—dc22 2003017925 1 2 3 4 5 09 08 07 06 05 04 For Jason, Jeremy, and Miranda Hunter. E. T. For Sophie and Julian. D. G. ...