Part Ⅰ:Reading Asian American Literature in New Frames 1
1．Toward a Bifocal View of Chinese American Literature ZHAO Wenshu 3
2．Commentary on Transnational Asian American Studies Elaine Kim 25
Part Ⅱ:Beyond Borders of Nation and Race 35
3．Asian American Realism and the Literature of Globalization:The Local and the Global in Jhumpa Lahiri and Yiyun Li&Mark Chiang 37
4．Where Is Gary Locke in Chinese American Literature?Critiquing Chinese American Literary Transnationalism&PAN Zhiming 55
5．Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies:Individual Identity and the ImaginedNation&StephanieHan 78
6．Debt,the Shifting Grammar of Life,and Manjula Padmanabhan's Harvest&JodiKim 94
7．"The Jammed":Representational Politics and Racialized Narratives of the Trafficked Asian Diaspora&Annie Isabel Fukushima 108
8．Re-presenting the Global Filipino:The Story and Songs of Apl de Ap&Ethel Regis Lu 124
9．Orientalism,Genre,and Transnational Korean/Amefican Stars&Jane Park 143
Part Ⅲ:Memories of War/Wars of Memory 157
10．On the Edges of Consciousness:Figuring Time in Joy Kogawa's Obasan&Sunn Shelley Wong 159
11．Border-Crossing in the Worid Republic of Letters:South Korean and Korean American Rearguard Fictions of the Korean War&Christine Hong 175
12．Writing in the Dark:Memory,Memoirs and Re-Membering After Genocide&Khartarya Um 195
Part Ⅳ:Ideas of Home and Family 207
13．Memories Without Borders,Borders Without Memories&Luis H.Francia 209
14．A Foreigner at Home:The Politics of Home in Francie Lin's The Foreigner&Iping Liang 220
15．Family:The Site of Repression,Resistance,Empowerment,and Formation of Female Subiecthood&ZHANG Li 235
16．Transgenerational Trauma in Fae Myenne Ng's Bone&XUE Yufeng 250
Notes on Contributors 266
Index 272