Acknowledgments
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter One The Cultural Politics of the Generation Gap
Good Medicine Tastes Bitter: Cultural Identity Reformation in
Louis Chu''s Eat a Bowl of Tea
Like Father, Like Son?: Intergenerational Conflict in Pardee
Lowe''s Father and Glorious Descendant
The beginning is hers, the ending, mine: Mother-Daughter Talking
Stories in Maxine Hong Kingston''s The Woman Warrior
Your mother is in your blood: The Mother-Daughter Bond in Amy
Tan''s The Joy Luck Club
Chapter Two The Politics and Art of Claiming America
The Making of an American: A New Historicist Interpretation of
Maxine Hong Kingston''s China Men
From Cultural Nationalism to Americanism: Frank Chin''s Donald
Duk in Perspective
Rebel with a Cause: Jade Snow Wong''s American Dream in her Fifth
Chinese Daughter
Shawn Wong''s Quest for a Lonely Heritage in his Homebase
Chapter Three Americanization and its Discontents
America was no America: Cultural Disillusionment in Gish Jen''s
Typical American
Paper is more precious than blood'': Alienation and Abjection in Fae
Myenne Ng''s Bone
Spare the Rod, Spoil the Child?: Americanization as Violence in
Gus Lee''s China Boy
Nature versus Nurture: An Anatomy of Americanization in Eric Liu''s
The Accidental Asian
Conclusion
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