Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Formations of Asian America: immigration, empire, law. Asian American literature within and beyond the immigrant narrative / Min Hyoung Song -- America's empire and the Asia-Pacific: constructing Hawai'i and the Philippines / Denise Cruz and Erin Suzuki -- Adjudicating Asian America / Kandice Chuh and Karen Shimakawa.

Part II. Asian American writing and the legacy of war. Writing the internment / Greg Robinson -- The literature of the Korean War and Vietnam War / Daniel Y. Kim and Viet Thanh Nguyen -- "The war on terror": post-9/11 south Asian and Arab American literature / Rajini Srikanth.

Part III. The extravagant of genre. Asian American drama / Josephine Yee -- Asian American poetry / Josephine Park -- Model minority narratives and the Asian American family / Erin Ninh -- The writing of translation / Christopher Lee -- Popular genres and new media / Betsy Huang -- Toward a definition of diaspora literature / Hyungji Park.

Part IV. Identities and postidentities. Feminisms and queer interventions into Asian America / Helena Grice and Crystal Parikh -- Comparative race studies and interracialisms / Joseph Keith -- Rethinking embodiment and hybridity: mixed-race, adoptee, and disabled subjectiveness / Cathy J. Schlund-Vials and Cynthia Wu.