Scrutinized! : surveillance in Asian North American literature /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Chiu, Monica, 1965- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, in association with UCLA Asian American Studies Center Los Angeles, [2014]
Series:	Intersections (Honolulu, Hawaii)
Subjects:	American fiction > Asian American authors > History and criticism. Canadian fiction > Asian American authors > History and criticism. Detective and mystery stories, American > History and criticism. Detective and mystery stories, Canadian > History and criticism. Race in literature.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: under scrutiny
Racial playgrounds: illusion and danger in Don Lee's Country of origin
The conspicuous subjects of interracial spaces in Nina Revoyr's Southland
Persistent vigilance and racial longing in Choi's Person of interest and Kim's The interpreter
Intimate details: scrutiny and evidentiary photographs in Kerri Sakamoto's The electrical field
Double surveillance in Mohsin Hamid's The reluctant fundamentalist
Conclusion.