Introduction: heroines of transnational Asian America / Lan Dong -- Of princesses pari and fox girls: Nora okja Keller's transnational performance of Korean histories and myths / Silvia Schultermandl -- Water birth: domestic violence and monstrosity in Hiromi Goto's The kappa child / Nancy Kang -- Between ruination and reconciliation: dragon princesses, Cambodian American heroines, and Loung ung's Lucky child / Cathy J. Schlund-Vials -- From female self-sacrifice to Korean freedom fighter: Yu Guan Soon in Theresa Cha's Dictee / Karen An-hwei Lee -- Merlinda bobis: the transnational Filipina warrior between the postcolonial exotic and the Babaylan/Catalonan / Marie-Therese C. Sulit -- Mulan against Gwan Gung: performing myths on a transnational stage / Lan Dong -- Re-imagining happily-ever-after in Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine / Amy N. Nishimura -- Adopting a different posture and relocating one's roots: the trung legend in Vietnamese American narratives / Tina Lynn Powell -- The Nicole subic rape case and the Chingada in the Philippine imaginary / Danicar Mariano -- Lost in translation: American critical audience and the transnational Chinese swordswoman / Catherine Gomes -- Phoolan Devi: the primordial tradition of the bandit queen / J. Sunita Peacock -- Translating mother's tongue(s) and traveling bodies: palimpsest and diaspora in Maxine Hong Kingston's The woman warrior / Pei-Ju Wu.
Summary:
"This collection examines transnational Asian American women in fictional narratives. It analyzes how certain heroines who are culturally rooted in Asian regions have been transformed and re-imagined in America and have played significant roles in Asian American literary studies as well as community life. The interdisciplinary essays display perspectives in Asian American literary studies and transnational feminism"--Provided by publisher.
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