Sexual Naturalization

Susan Koshy is Associate Professor of English and Asian American Studies at the Universityof Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

• Contents @toc4:Acknowledgmentsiii @toc2:Introduction1 @toc1:Part I. Sexual Orients and the American National Imaginary @toc3:Chapter 1. Mimic Modernity: "Madame Butterfly" and the Erotics of Informal Empire 000 Chapter 2. Eugenic Romances of American Nationhood000 @toc1:Part II. Engendering the Hybrid Nation @toc3:Chapter 3. Unincorporated Territories of Desire: Hypercorporeality and Miscegenation in Carlos Bulosan's Writings000 @toc:Chapter 4. Sex Acts as Assimilation Acts: Female Power and Passing in Bharati Mukherjee's Wife and Jasmine000 @toc4:Notes000 Bibliography000 Index000

"This volume makes an important contribution to American studies and race theory, revealing Asian American identity as a key site for understanding the complex significations that determine racial genealogies and sexual boundaries." - Choice "Susan Koshy's Sexual Naturalization is a remarkable contribution to miscegenation discourse, illuminating the repressed role of Asian Americans and miscegenation in the construction of race, gender, and nation....This is a rich, groundbreaking study." - American Literature