Crossing oceans : reconfiguring American literary studies in the Pacific Rim / edited by Noelle Brada-Williams and Karen Chow.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-192) and index.

Between places: American literature and language in the Pacific Rim / Karen Chow and Noelle Brada-Williams -- Pedagogies of resonance: teaching African American and Asian American literature and culture in Asia / King-Kok Cheung -- When Asian American literature leaves 'home': on internationalizing Asian American literary studies / Sau-ling C. Wong -- Reading a foreign place: geography and American literature / Sheila Hones -- Teaching with anthologies / Paul Lauter -- Institutional imperatives affecting the teaching of Asian American literature inside and outside the Pacific Rim / Noelle Brada-Williams -- The Kiowa-Matsue connection: inventive modeling and American Indian literature teach Japanese identity / Kenneth M. Roemer -- The great white 'race adventure': Jack London and the yellow peril / Patrick B. Sharp -- 'Stories to pass on': pedagogically dialoging Maxine Hong Kingston and Toni Morrison ./ Karen Chow -- Teaching 'representations of Asians in the American public imagination': the problems of representation as a problematic / Ryan Bishop -- Forging inter-cultural feminist theory in practice: the Korean classroom politics of feminist reading on Sula / So-Hee Lee -- Between memory and history: Maxine Hong Kingston's China men and The woman warrior / Wang Jianping -- 'An identity switch': a critique of multiculturalism in Gish Jen's Mona in the promised land / Chih-ming Wang -- Under eastern eyes: ghosts and cultural haunting in Maxine Hong Kingston's The woman warrior and China Men / Walter S.H. Lim.

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This book's intended mission is to compliment and extend the vision of a seminal volume, published in 1995, American Studies Today: An Introduction to Methods and Perspectives, which came out of the American Studies Research Centre in Hyderabad, India.

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