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Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Reading Globality ix I. Doing Global Dirty Work 1. The 1.5 Generation: Filipino Youth, Transmigrancy, and Masculinity 3 2. Recuperating Wretched Lives: Asian Sex Workers and the Underside of Nation Building 20 II. Performing and Negotiating Transcultural Identities 3. “All of Us Are the Same”: Negotiating Loss, Witnessing Disability 43 4. Feminist Subversions: Comedy and the Carnivalesque 63 III. Future Perfect: Feminist Resistance to Global Homogeneity 5. Shape-shifters and Disciplined Bodies: Feminist Tactics, Science Fiction, and Fantasy 89 6. Scripting Fertility: Desire and Regeneration in Japanese North American Literature 108 Coda: Rethinking the Hyphen 129 Contents Notes 143 Works Cited 151 Filmography 167 Index 169 ...