The origins of Chinese American autobiography /Floyd Cheung 2. Stage orientalism and Asian American performance from the 19th into the 20th century /Josephine Lee 3. 'I seek out poems now incomplete': writings from the Angel Island immigration station /Sunn Shelley Wong 4. The Eaton sisters and the figure of the Eurasian /Jinhua Emma Teng 5. Indian diasporic autobiography: new nations and new selves /Sandhya Shukla 6. Koreans in exile: Younghill Kang and Richard E. Kim Joseph Jeon 7. Filipino and Filipina voices Denise Cruz 8. Chinatown life as contested terrain: H. T. Chiang, Jade Snow Wong, and C. Y. /Lee Patricia Chu 9. Coded critique: Japanese American internment literature /Traise Yamamoto 10. Asian American short fiction and the contingencies of form, 1930s–1960s /Jinqi Ling 11. The Chicago School and the sociological imagination /Cynthia Tolentino 12. Documenting the third world student strike, the anti-war movement, and the emergence of second-wave feminism from Asian American perspectives /Daryl Joji Maeda 13. The art of the Asian American movement's social protest performance /Lucy Burns 14. Inventing identity: the manifestos of pioneering Asian American literature anthologies /Donald Goellnicht 15. Maxine Hong Kingston, feminism, and postmodern literature /Stella Bolaki 16. The emergence of Asian American literature as an academic field /Viet Thanh Nguyen
17. Theresa Hak-Kyung Cha and the impact of theory /Timothy Yu
18. Heterogeneity to multiplicity: building Asian American literary critique /Anita Mannur and Allan Punzalan Isaac
19. Whose Asias? /Samir Dayal
20. The South Asian American challenge /Asha Nadkarni
21. Contemporary Filipino American writers and the legacy of imperialism /Eleanor Ty
22. Beyond solitary confinement: rethinking the socio-political context of local literature in Hawai'i /Seri Luangphinith
23. Contemporary Asian American drama /Esther Kim Lee
24. 'More than you ever knew you knew': the rising prestige of fiction /Tina Chen
ian American poetry and the politics of form /Dorothy Wang
26. The forgotten war in Korea /Josephine Park
27. The American war in Vietnam and its diasporas /Anh Thang Dao-Shah and Isabelle Thuy Pelaud
28. Refugee aesthetics: Cambodia, Laos, and the Hmong Cathy Schlund-Vials
29. The 9/11 of our imagination: Islam, the figure of the Muslim, and the failed liberalism of the racial present /Junaid Rana
30. Narrating war: Arab and Muslim American aesthetics /Samina Najmi
31. Thick time and space: Karen Tei Yamashita's aesthetics /Kandice Chuh
33. Beyond national literatures: empire and Amitav Ghosh /Ruth Maxey.