Crossing Oceans: Reconfiguring American Literary Studies in the Pacific Rim

Index

Index abjection 16 2 Adair, GUbert 17 6 Adventures of Buck Rogers In The 25th Century 9 5 African America n 13 , 17 , 20 , 21-3 , 27 , 103-4, 12 3 African American Literatur e 13 , 14, 16-7, 31,64 Agassiz, Loui s 17 1 Aiiieeeee! 26 Alice In Wonderland 175 Alvarez, JuHa 10 3 Amariglio, Jack 145 , 17 5 Amazing Storie s 9 5 America, a s part o f Asian diaspor a4— 5 America is in the Heart 7 6 Americans, The 5 0 American identit y 4 2 American India n Literatur e 7 9 {see also Native American literature ) American Hterar y cano n 4 4 American Studie s1—2 , 41—3, 167—8 Anaya, Rudolfo 10 3 Anglo Saxo n 17 1 Anthias, Floya 14 1 Anti-Asian anxiet y 16 9 Antin, Mary 6 4 Appiah, K.Anthony 143 , 146, 17 5 Approaches to Teaching Momaday's the Way to Rainy Mountain 17 0 Apter, Enuly 17 5 Aristotle 11 3 'Armageddon 241 9 AD ' 9 5 Asian American Literature 8,13,14,16,20 , 29-31, 32 , 34-40, 64 , 67-9 , 71 , 77, 131 'home' 30-1 , 166 mother-daughter relationshi p i n 135 , 136, 148-9 , 17 6 Asian America n Literatur e Associatio n (AALA) 16 , 2 1 Asian American studie s 72 , 16 9 194 Index Asian American mode l minorit y 14 , 20 Asian American s 13 , 20, 22-4 , 26-7 , 70 , 74, 11 0 Asian Canadia n culture 3 7 literary studie s 37 , 16 7 Asian nationaUs t recuperatio n 3 5 Assimilating Asians: Gendered Strategies of Authorship in Asian America 17 6 assimilation 15 2 Atlantic Monthly, The 44-5 , 4 8 Aung Sa n Su u Ky i 2 7 authenticity an d Asia n America n writer s 133-4, 155 , 15 9 Banerjee, Mit a 38 , 16 8 Barthes, Roland 12 1 Bateson, Gregor y 11 1 BaudriUard, Jean 142 , 14 7 Bauman, Zygmun t 14 4 Beauregard, Gu y 37 , 16 7 BeU, David 2 2 Beloved 100, 101 , 171, 172 Berg, Lawrence 16 8 Beyond Rangoon, film 2 5 Bhabha, Hom i 14 5 bildungsroman 100 , 103 , 14 1 biological determinis m 9 1 Bishop, Ryan 8 Black Skin, White Mask 15 1 Bleich, David 12 3 Bloom, Harol d 13 3 Bluest Eye, The 17 , 100, 17 2 Bone 10 3 Boudinot, EHa s 6 0 Bow, Leslie 16 6 Brada-WiUiams, NoeU e 7 , 17 4 Bread Givers 76 Brooks, Gwendolyn 1 7 Brosseau, Marc 49-5 0 Brown, Hele n Gurle y 11 7 Bryant, William Culle n 5 8 Buck Rogers 95—6 Buley-Meissner, Mar y Louis e 3 4 Bulosan, Carlo s 76 , 16 5 Burma (Myanmar ) 14 , 24-6, 16 6 Butler, Judith 17 2 Byers,Tom 3 9 CaUari, Antonio 145 , 17 5 Call of the Wild 89, 9 2 Cambodia 2 Campomanes, Osca r 16 6 Canada 3 7 Cane 7 3 Canterbury Tales15— 6 CarroU, Lewis 17 5 Cary, Alice 6 5 Gather, Willa 4 6 Caws, Peter 14 1 Century Magazine 11 4 Chang, Hsiao-hun g 174 , 17 5 Chao, Lien 3 7 Charlie Chan in the Secret Service (him) 11 8 Charlie's Angels (film ) 10 2 Chaucer15— 6 Cheng, Anne Anlin 16 6 Cheung, King-Kok 6,16 , 21, 75,100,133, 134, 136 , 166 , 17 0 Chin, Fran k 20 , 33, 10 3 Chin, Vincent 70 , 16 9 China 21 , 35, 36, 94, 101 , 111 China Men 15-6, 27, 34, 70, 72-3, 100, 101, 135, 136-7 , 160-2 , 171 , 172 Chinese America n Literatur e 29—30 , 3 35 Chinese Americans 8-9 , 15 , 93, 103, 105, 167 Chinese Exclusio n Act 6 4 Ching-Louie, Miria m 1 7 Chow, Kare n 8 Choy, Christin e 16 9 Chu, Patrici a 166 , 17 6 Chuh, Kandic e 16 6 Cisneros, Sandra 10 3 Clay Walls 16 7 coloniaHsm 3 , 9 Consumer Society, The 14 2 commodity fetishis m 141-2 , 174- 5 community identit y 103—4 , 106 Crane, Stephe n 8 9 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (film) 10 2 Cruz, Jon 14 3 CuUer, Jonathan, 12 3 cultural geograph y 48—5 0 cummings, e.e . 5 3 Curiel, Barbara Brinso n 4 6 Darwin, Charle s 9 1 Darwinism (an d Darwinis t o...