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| Acknowledgments | ||
| Introduction: Re-Thinking Cultural Identity | 1 | |
| Pt. I | Extending the Boundaries of Cultural Identity | |
| Ch. 1 | Nation, Class, and Physical Minorities | 17 |
| Ch. 2 | Strange Blood: Hemophobia and the Unexplored Boundaries of Queer Nation | 39 |
| Ch. 3 | "An Essential Friendship": African Americans and Caribbean Immigrants in Harlem | 61 |
| Ch. 4 | Narratives of Deviance and Delight: Staring at Julia Pastrana, the "Extraordinary Lady" | 81 |
| Pt. II | Exploring Cultural Self-Transformation | |
| Ch. 5 | "One Hundred Percent American": How a Slave, a Janitor, and a Former Klansman Escaped Racial Categories by Becoming Indians | 107 |
| Ch. 6 | "From This Moment Forth, We Are Black Lesbians": Querying Feminism and Transgressing Whiteness in Consolidated's The Business of Punishment | 139 |
| Pt. III | Mapping New Theoretical Territory | |
| Ch. 7 | The Accent of "Loss": Cultural Crossings as Context in Julia Alvarez's How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents | 165 |
| Ch. 8 | Historical Multiculturalism: Cultural Complexity in the First Native American Novel | 185 |
| Ch. 9 | Newsprint Masks: The Comic Columns of Finley Peter Dunne, Alexander Posey, and Langston Hughes | 205 |
| Ch. 10 | Genealogy, Genre, Gender: Sui Sin Far's "Leaves from the Mental Portfolio of an Eurasian" | 236 |
| Ch. 11 | Miscegen(r)ation or Mestiza Discourse?: Feminist and Racial Politics in Ramona and Iola Leroy | 261 |
| About the Contributors | 277 | |
| Index | 281 |
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Jaime L Snyder
reviewed Beyond the binary on October 02, 2017
Beyond the binary
A very balanced book that looks at the condition of the Asian immigrant through the light of history, literature and politics. Lowe is probably at her best and most passionate in the discussion of the state of Asian immigrant women, and of the need for all of us to cross borders of race, ethnicity and class in order to work towards positive change.
She manages to contextualize some basic ideas while at the same time going in depth with some theories of Marx, Althusser, Audre Lorde, Fanon, Benjamin, and others and connecting them to this situation in ways I haven't thought of previously. She also does some great reading of Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters, Fae Myenne Ng's Bone, Carlos Bulosan's America is in the Heart: A Personal History, and, especially, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee.
Her writing can at times be dense and takes some getting used to, but it is a very important work to Asian American studies so it can't be ignored. It is winner of the 1997 Book Award in Cultural Studies from the Association for Asian American Studies and an HOnoroable Mention for the 1997 John Hope Franklin Prize for the best book published in American studies. It brings out some major issues in feminist studies, Marxist studies, and Asian American and immigrant history in general.
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