Preface i
Acknowledgements ix
Chapter One The Predicament of Culture: An Introductory Survey of the History of Asian and Chinese American Migration and Cultural Struggles
I. Internal Colonial "Racist Hate" and Neo-colonial "Racist Love":Racial Alienation and Abjection
The Irreducible Other--Internal Colonial Alienation:1850-1943
Asian Abjection--Neo-colonial "Racist Love": Post-1943
II. Structural Contradictions: the American Dilemma
III. Resistance and Complicity: The Predicament of Asian and Chinese American Cultural Struggle
Chapter Two The Subversive Outsider Within: Towards a New
Perspective of Asian and Chinese American Literary-cultural Criticism
I. Unassimilability: History, Racialisation and Cultural Contestation and Transformation
Refraining Space: Ambivalence and Uncanny Cultural Doubling
Hybridising Time: Dual-dimensional Third Time-space and Cultural Reconfiguration
II. Straddling the Border: Rethinking the Politics of Asian and Chinese American Literary-cultural Criticism
III Chinese American Women's Writings: Living and Exploiting The Duality and Paradox 8
Chapter Three "Echo of a Cry": The Psychic Landscape of the
Cosmopolitan Ermigres in Diana Chang's The Frontiers of Love and Chuang Hua's Crossings
I. Schizophrenic Multiple Identities and Double Consciousness
II. Divided Colonial City and the Subject of the Borderlands: Diana Chang's The Frontiers of Love
III. Desire and Imagining in a "No Man's Land": Chuang Hua's Crossings
VI. Conclusion
Chapter Four Monstrosity of Translation: The Masquerade Dream Narratives of Fifth Chinese Daughter and Typical American
I. The Trope of Assimilation: De-mythologizing the Dream of Upward Mobility
II. The Masquerade Dream Narratives: Mimic (Wo)men in Fifth Chinese Daughter and Typical American
III. Seeing Double: Fragments and Chunks and Metonymic Displacement
IV. Conclusion
Chapter Five Transcultural Metamorphosis: Feminist Intersubjectivity,
Negotiation and Subversion in The Woman Warrior and The Bonesetter' s Daughter
I. Politicising the Mother-daughter Trope: Postulating an Intersubjective Space of Cross-cultural Negotiation
II. Multiple Intersections: the Cross-cultural Self-other Interaction
III. Leap to the Power of Language: Storytelling and Re-inscribing Gender, Ethnicity and Transcultural Identity
IV. Conclusion
Chapter Six Negotiating Cultural Identities and Differences
I. "The (Pre-)Emergent": Finding a Non-place of Neither One Nor Other Yet Both
II. Extra- and Intra-textual Negotiations: Rereading Chinese American Cultural Identity
III. Emergent Literature: Contestation and Interdependence
Selected Bibiliography
Index