Table of Contents:
  • Critical contexts. The hyphenated American in twentieth- and twenty-first century America / Annette Harris Powell
  • Intersecting lives: critics and the literature of American multicultural identity / Jessica Boykin
  • Sherman Alexie and the absolute truth of double-consciousness / Kathryn West
  • Four American poets explore hybrid identity formation and familial relationships / Rickie-Ann Legleitner
  • Critical readings. Legalized hearts: legal identity in Larry Kramer's The normal heart / Gad Guterman
  • Unspoken histories and one-man museums: lingering trauma and disappearing dads in the work of Chang-rae Lee / Michael Gorman
  • "She's left me her legacy nonetheless": boundaries and female connection in Cuban American women's literature / Jessica LabbĂ©
  • Race, ethnicity, and national identity in Paule Marshall's Brown girl, brownstones, or how the Barbadian becomes American / Joanna Davis-McElligatt
  • "A Pizza Hut, a Pizza Hut": junk food and Bildungsroman in Bich Minh Nguyen's Stealing Buddha's dinner / Tina Powell
  • Neither insider nor outside but both: multicultural identity in Edith Eaton's "Mrs. Spring Fragrance" and "The inferior woman" / Linda Trinh Moser
  • Intimate relations: land and love in The descendants / Leanne P. Day
  • Bridging borders: Leslie Marmon Silko's cross-cultural vision in the atomic age / Kyoko Matsunaga
  • A tent of one's own: negotiating Mourning Dove's authorial identity / John C. Orr & Enid R. Spitz
  • "All growth involves change, all change involves loss": modernism, mourning, and social change in Gish Jen's Mona in the promised land / Conor Picken.