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 /1

 I. Internal Colonial "Racist Hate" and Neo-colonial "Racist Love":Racial Alienation and Abjection /13

The Irreducible Other--Internal Colonial Alienation:1850-1943 /14

Asian Abjection--Neo-colonial "Racist Love": Post-1943 /26

 II. Structural Contradictions: the American Dilemma /36

 III. Resistance and Complicity: The Predicament of Asian and Chinese American Cultural Struggle /43

Chapter Two The Subversive Outsider Within: Towards a New

 Perspective of Asian and Chinese American Literary-cultural Criticism /63

 I. Unassimilability: History, Racialisation and Cultural Contestation and Transformation /67

Refraining Space: Ambivalence and Uncanny Cultural Doubling /67

Hybridising Time: Dual-dimensional Third Time-space and Cultural Reconfiguration /80

 II. Straddling the Border: Rethinking the Politics of Asian and Chinese American Literary-cultural Criticism /90

 III Chinese American Women's Writings: Living and Exploiting The Duality and Paradox /108

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 /125

 I. Schizophrenic Multiple Identities and Double Consciousness /129

 II. Divided Colonial City and the Subject of the Borderlands: Diana Chang's The Frontiers of Love /141

 III. Desire and Imagining in a "No Man's Land": Chuang Hua's Crossings /152

 VI. Conclusion /165

Chapter Four Monstrosity of Translation: The Masquerade Dream Narratives of Fifth Chinese Daughter and Typical American /170

 I. The Trope of Assimilation: De-mythologizing the Dream of Upward Mobility /175

 II. The Masquerade Dream Narratives: Mimic （Wo）men in Fifth Chinese Daughter and Typical American /185

 III. Seeing Double: Fragments and Chunks and Metonymic Displacement /201

 IV. Conclusion /219

Chapter Five Transcultural Metamorphosis: Feminist Intersubjectivity,

 Negotiation and Subversion in The Woman Warrior and The Bonesetter' s Daughter /224

 I. Politicising the Mother-daughter Trope: Postulating an Intersubjective Space of Cross-cultural Negotiation /226

 II. Multiple Intersections: the Cross-cultural Self-other Interaction /238

 III. Leap to the Power of Language: Storytelling and Re-inscribing Gender, Ethnicity and Transcultural Identity /252

 IV. Conclusion /267

Chapter Six Negotiating Cultural Identities and Differences /272

 I. "The （Pre-）Emergent": Finding a Non-place of Neither One Nor Other Yet Both /274

 II. Extra- and Intra-textual Negotiations: Rereading Chinese American Cultural Identity /278

 III. Emergent Literature: Contestation and Interdependence /294

Selected Bibiliography /312

Index /335

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