An Interethnic Companion to Asian American Literature

This is a timely collection of essays and indispensable for all libraries collecting materials on US literatures and cultures. King‐Kok Cheung in her detailed opening essay “Re‐viewing Asian American literary studies” defines “Asian American literature ... as works by people of Asian descent who were either born in or who have migrated to North America.” The essay is divided into seven sections: “Identity, cultural nationalism, heterogeneity”; “American, Asian, Asian American”; “Race, gender, sexuality, class”; “Communal responsibility, artistic freedom”; “The publishing marketplace”; “Interethnic”; and a summary outlining the contributions which follow. These are divided into two sections. The first part has...