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Abbasid Caliphate period, 193–94, 199, 232n28, 232n30, 233n35, 233nn39–40 “Abducted by Aliens!.” See under Light, Claire Abler, Thomas, 147, 228n12 A Carnivore’s Inquiry. See under Murray, Sabina activism: Chicano cultural nationalism, 76–77, 80, 87, 89–90, 93, 98–99; in Foster’s Atomik Aztex, 82–89; importance of, 81; limits of white, 131–33 Acuña, Rodolfo, 66 Adolf, Antony, 200 African American literature: and alienabduction narratives, 178–79; criticism, 215n28 African Americans: in segregated Long Island suburbs, 47–48 agricultural industry, 64, 66, 69–73, 220n4 Aiiieeeee! An Anthology of Asian-American Writers, 17, 215n25 Alam, M. Shahid, 204 Alarcón, Daniel Cooper, 98 Alber, Jan, 124 Alcoff, Linda Martín, 66 Alexander, Susan K., 111 alienation: various subject positions, 31–32, 33 Almaguer, Tomás, 64 Aloft. See under Lee, Chang-rae American identity: and cannibalism, 145, 157–58; gradation of racialization, 28; immigrants’ names changed, 50–51; jettisoning hazardous past, 15; shift in US racial makeup (Chicanos and Latinos), 80–81; whiteness as ultimate criterion, 63. See also whiteness and white identity American indigenous captivity narrative, 178 American Studies, 22, 217n38 analogy: racial, 179, 181–84, 191–92, 207; speculative fictions, 172; time-traveling cultural document, 193, 207; use of term, 230n2, 231n3 Anasazi and cannibalism, 148–51, 228n18–25 anthropophagy, 146, 147, 155, 169. See also cannibalism appropriation, ethnoracial and cultural: by Asian American writers, 29, 65, 89, 191, 233n35; by characters in Chiang’s TMATAG, 207; by characters in Light’s “Abducted by Aliens!,” 190, 207; by characters in Nunez’s The Last of Her Kind, 130–33; classical art acquisitions, 158, 162, 165, 169; dangers of, 75, 76, 92, 100; of storytelling, 177 Aravamudan, Srinivas, 233n45 Ted Chiang’s The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate is abbreviated in the subheadings as TMATAG. Index 276 / index autobiographic/ethnographic readings: and ethnoracial appropriation, 130, 223n35; glimpses of (in Foster’s Atomik Aztex), 93–94; and minor characters, 72–73; mixed race and function of fictionalized biography, 103–4; and mixed race writers, 102–3, 120, 155–56; and model minority paradigm, 11–12 (see also model minority paradigm); and myths of postrace discourse, 136–37; narrator/ author ethnicity differs, 27–28; not paralleled in writing, 2–4, 213n3, 214nn11–12; resisted and complicated, 19–20, 64, 70–71, 76, 89–90, 120, 210–12; severing link between author and narrator, 20–22; and speculative fictions, 173, 207–8. See also biography and fictional form of; ethnoracial authenticity; narrative perspective autobiography/memoir: author and narrator-character, 20; and model minority myth, 11–12; use of literary form, 4–5, 13–14, 213n7. See also bildungsroman and anti-bildungsroman Avramescu, Cǎtǎlin, 227n8 Aztec Empire, 78–79. See also Foster, Sesshu: Atomik Aztex Aztlán, 76, 98–99, 221nn16–18. See also Chicanos and Asian Americans Bacho, Peter: V. Nguyen’s critique of Entrys, 112–13, 119 Backhaus, Bhira: Under the Lemon Trees, 64–65, 70–73, 99 Ballaster, Rosalind, 198–99, 201, 203 Bataille, Georges, 79 Bates, Milton J., 119 Baxandall, Rosalyn, 218n15 Bedolla, Lisa, 80–81 Benedict, Elizabeth, 225n26 Benton, Michael, 107 Berglund, Jeff, 229n25 Bernard, Elaine, 222n25 bildungsroman and anti-bildungsroman, 5, 10, 13, 101, 139, 213n7, 216n30, 224n6. See also autobiography/memoir Billman, Brian R., 229n21 Arens, William, 147, 228nn13–14 Armstrong, Karen, 199 Arrizón, Alicia, 76, 221n17 Asian American literature: author, narrator and storyteller, 216–17n36; constitution and narrative perspective, 4–6; genre fiction and young adult fiction, 213n4; on Japanese American internment, 190, 232n23 (see also Light, Claire: “Abducted by Aliens!”); language of, 213n1; literary craft, 12; mixed race writers, 102; multifocal, 18, 215n27; polycultural critique, 66; rise of criticism, 17–20, 215–16nn25–30; severing link between author and narrator, 20–22; traditional understanding of, 1–2. See also Asian American speculative fictions; criticism and critical trends; individual authors Asian Americans: versus Asian-Americans (hyphenated), 49; distinctions among populations, 220n5; importance of fictional minor characters, 130; term as metaphor, 105; use of term, 48–49 Asian American speculative fictions: alien-abduction narratives, 177–79, 181, 187, 207–8; analogy and allegory, 172, 230n2; as cautionary tales, 81, 221n14; and cultural criticism, 171–72; Japanese American internment as, 188–92; race in, 201, 231n4; racial asymmetries in, 173; time travel, 196. See also Chiang, Ted; Foster, Sesshu; Light, Claire Asian American studies: and Foster’s Atomik Aztex, 65; intersectional, need for, 22, 103, 212; and Lee’s Aloft, 25; and Light’s “Abducted by Aliens...

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