Nation, Race & History in Asian American Literature: Re-membering the Body

After introductory discussions of such matters as bodies in limbo and American ideals and pragmatics, Zamora (English and world literature, Kean U., New Jersey) illustrates her ideas with close readings of artifice in David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly, the rope in Lois- Ann Yamanaka's Blu's Hanging, and the collage in Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters. She has not indexed her work. Annotation 穢2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)