Table of Contents
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction Jennifer Ho Jenny Heijun Wills 1
Part I Genres
Approaching an Untamed Poetry: Arab North American Poetry in the Classroom Rachel Norman 27
The Diasporas of Sui Sin Par's and Jhumpa Lahiri's Asian North American Short Stories Audrey Wu Clark 36
Teaching Asian North American Drama Josephine Lee 46
Teaching Asian North American Literature in a Community College Classroom Yuemin He 58
Teaching Asian American Literature and the Law in the Land of Enchantment: A Case Study Ying Xu 66
Part II Literary Fiction
Teaching the Post-9/11 Bildungsroman Anantha Sudhakar 81
Critical Consciousness and the Asian North American Realist Novel Keith Lawrence 93
Teaching Asian North American Historical Fiction Eleanor Ty 105
Teaching Asian North American Mystery Literature and Cinema Elaine Chang 115
Teaching Asian North American Detective Fiction as Social Justice Practice at a Predominantly White Institution Jinny Huh 130
Future Building: Teaching Asian North American Speculative Fiction Betsy Huang 142
Asian American Chick Lit in Cultural Studies Classrooms: Crazy Conflicted Asians Jenny Heijun Wills 151
Part III Media
Photography and Asian North American Literature Lily Cho 163
Documentary Propaganda Films: Representation of Japanese American and Japanese Canadian Internment Judith Musser 173
Graphic Novels and the Visual Narrative of Race in American Born Chinese and Shortcomings LeiLani Nishime 182
Slanted Views: Teaching Asian North American Queer Films and Videos Donald Goellnicht Vinh Nguyen 193
Mobilized Communities: Teaching Digital Activism in the Asian American Literature Course Paul Petrovic 205
Part IV Themes and Motifs
Traumas of War and Displacement in When the Emperor Was Divine Jeff Gibbons 219
Adoption and Asian North American Literature Kimberly McKee 230
Approaches to Richard Fung's Asian Indo-Caribbean Literature Sharanpal Ruprai 243
Critical Pedagogies: Resisting Anti-Arab Racism in the North American Classroom Carol W. N. Fadda 250
Teaching the Transnational in Asian North American Novels Julia H. Lee 264
Notes on Contributors 275
