Includes bibliographical references and index.

After Imprisonment: Ichiro's Search for Redemption in No-No Boy / Dorothy Ritsuko McDonald -- Writer in the Hyphenated condition: Diana Chang / Amy Ling -- Relocation and Dislocation: The Writings of Hisaye Yamamoto and Wakako Yamauchi / Dorothy Ritsuko McDonald and Katerarine Newman -- Sui Sin Far / Edith Eaton: The First Chinese-American Fictionist / S.E. Solberg -- Winnifred Eaton: Ethnic Chameleon and Popular Success / Amy Ling -- "As in Myth the Signs Were All Over": The Fiction of N.V.M. Gonzalez / Richard R. Guzman -- Seventeen Syllables: A Symbolic Haiku / Zenobia Baxter Mistri -- Japanese American Women's Life Stories: Maternality in Monica Sone's Nisei Daugher and Joy Kagawa's Obasan / Shirley Geok-lin Lim -- Carlos Bulosan: A Filipino American Community Portrait / Elzine H. Kim -- From Isolation to Integration: Vietnamese Americans in Tran Dieu Hang's Fiction / Qui-Phiet Tran -- Facing the Incurable: Patriarchy in Eat a Bowl of Tea / Ruth Y. Hsiao -- Filipinos in the United States and Their Literature of Exile / Oscar V. Campomanes -- Beyond "Clay Walls": Korean American Literature / Chung-Hei Yun -- Reading and Writing the South Asian Diaspora: Feminism and Natinalism in North American / Inderpal Gerwal -- Monkey Business: Maxine Hong Kingston's Transformational Trickster Texts / Jeanne Rosier Smith.