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TRANSNATIONALAsian American LITERATURE Sie is AND ivan Sales am: Ly Sa Gon bi ag tf oe Ay } Ves EDITED BY Shirley Geok-lin Lim John Blair Gamber Stephen Hong Sohn Gina Valentino Transnational Asian American Literature Transnational Asian American Literature Sites and Transits Edited by SHIRLEY GEOK-LIN LIM, JOHN BLAIR GAMBER, STEPHEN HONG SOHN, AND GINA VALENTINO Alig TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS — Philadelphia Temple University Press 1601 North Broad Street Philadelphia PA 19122 www.temple.edu/tempress Copyright © 2006 by Temple University All rights reserved Published 2006 Printed in the United States of America The paper used in this publication meets the requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Transnational Asian American literature : sites and transits / edited by Shirley Geok-lin Lim ... [et al.]. seme Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-59213-450-5 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 1-59213-451-3 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. American literature—Asian American authors—History and criticism. 2. Emigration and immigration in literature. 3. Asian Americans—Intellectual life. 4. Asian Americans in literature. 5. Immigrants in literature. I. Lim, Shirley. PS153.A84T73 2005 810.9’895—dc22 2005049680 Lines in Park-chapter (pp. 236-237, 239) from “And Sing We” and “Food, Shelter, Clothing” in Myung Mi Kim, Under Flag (Berkeley, CA: Kelsey St. Press, 1999). Used by permission of Kelsey St. Press. Lines in Park chapter (pp. 244-246, 248-254) from Myung Mi Kim, Dura, New American Poetry Series 28 (Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1988). Used by permission of Sun & Moon Press. Linesi n Park chapter (p. 239) from “In a Station of the Metro”, By Ezra Pound, from PERSONAE, copyright © 1926 by Ezra Pound. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Company. Excerpts in Grotjohn chapter (pp. 219-232) from Kimiko Hahn’s “Wax,” “Morning Light,” “Mosquito and Ant,” “Jam,” “The Tumbler,” “Pine,” “The Downpour,” “Garnet,” “Guard the Jade Pass,” “Orchid Root,” “Radiator,” and “Croissant,” from Mosquito and Ant, used by permission of the poet. Lines in Islam chapter (p. 262) from Agha Shahid Ali, “Postcard from Kashmir” from The Half-Inch Himalayas © 1987 by Agha Shahid Ali and reprinted by permission of Wesleyan University Press. Lines in Islam chapter (p. 262) from Agha Shahid Ali, “Painting a Kashmir Landscape,” from In Memory of Begum Akhtar and Other Poems (Calcutta: Writer’s Workshop, 1975). Used by permission of the Agha Shahid Ali Literary Trust. Excerpts in Islam chapter (pp. 264-269) from “Beyond the Ash Rains” and “In Search of Evanescence” from A Nostalgist’s Map of America by Agha Shahid Ali. Copyright © 1991 by Agha Shahid Ali. Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Excerpts in Zhou chapter (pp. 282-288) from “The Dead Soldier’s Talk,” “The Execution of a Counter-Revolutionary,” “Promise,” “Again, These Days I Have Been Thinking of You,” “An Old Red Guard’s Reply,” and “Because I Will Be Silenced,” by Ha Jin in his Between Silences: A Voice from China (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990), used by permission of the poet. Excerpts in Zhou chapter (pp. 289-292) from “An Apology,” “I Sing of an Old Land,” “June 1989,” and “A Former Provincial Governor Tells about His Dismissal,” by Ha Jin in his Facing Shadows (Brooklyn, NY: Hanging Loose Press, 1996), used by permission of the poet. Excerpts in Zhou chapter (pp. 277-278) from Wang Ping’s “Of Flesh and Spirit,” collected in Of Flesh and Spirit (Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1998), used by permission of the poet. Done M ete Skokie 20p eal ' >oa “S*a epnry s; Seet i Aft. a 4 Weky ay ne ue h sl a Om) (+ tae do aw 1} ra a sst Madninhd iene ndal e SOE OAR aa hed lied Nee edt i alda vers SH 1D hy recension Wiens aa e . ‘ 1 aie eng! ae! a erage + ft : yal Ped Nati zis aman ays = Vier) bays Aaeee ea a a ae Ll, BR; a eee hed aki i he ky =A ea ale ia ut Be sail * <4) Sore adapts okey es ers 7) oS ~ 1 tne eh Fie wien Uae Oe sree |a o ued ahaa:4 “pat! : atL ed a = a Pe tute re St erepriys lis many+ sei ee © RMT “ashi isa ST se mslp ile trSepoi ls 22 we a aie it, : NG it a sat ie Sede alR ance a 4h a i2 z aa Fs af nik ae seot t| ntekae Lle)a "Aa == Contents Acknowledgments 1x Introduction SHIRLEY GEOK-LIN LIM, JOHN BLAIR GAMBER, STEPHEN HONG SOHN, AND GINA VALENTINO FICTION Re-Signed Subjects: Women, Work, and World in the Fiction of Carlos Bulosan and Hisaye Yamamoto CHERYL HIGASHIDA 29 “Just Another Ethnic Pol”: Literary Citizenship in Chang-rae Lee’s Native Speaker LIAM CORLEY 55 The Cartography of Justice and Truthful Refractions Found in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange RutH Y. Hsu 7S “Valuing” Transnational Queerness: Politicized Bodies and Commodified Desires in Asian American Literature STEPHEN HONG SOHN 100 Ethical Responsibility in the Intersubjective Spaces: Reading Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Interpreter of Maladies” and “A Temporary Matter.” GITA RAJAN 123 Abjection, Masculinity, and Violence in Brian Roley’s American Son and Hans Ong’s Fixer Chao ELEANOR ly 142 viii Contents IL. MEMOIR/AUTOBIOGRAPHY Begin Here: A Critical Introduction to the Asian American Childhood 161 Rocfo G. Davis The Poetics of Liminality and Misidentification: Winnifred Eaton’s Me and Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior 181 KATHERINE HYUNMI LEE Nation, Immigrant, Text: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee SRIMATI MUKHERJEE 197 IW POETRY 10. Kimiko’s Hahn’s “Interlingual Poetics” in Mosquito and Ant ROBERT GROTJOHN 219 ih: “Composed of Many Lengths of Bone”: Myung Mi Kim’s Reimagination of Image and Epic JOSEPHINE HockK-HEE Park 239 £2: A Way in the World of an Asian American Existence: Agha Shahid Ali’s Transimmigrant Spacing of North America and India/Kashmir Marmuna Dat IsLam 257 13. Writing Otherwise than as a “Native Informant”: Ha Jin’s Poetry ZHOU XIAOJING 274 About the Contributors 295 Index 229
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