Transnationalism and the Asian American Heroine

Lan Dong is an assistant professor of English at the University of Illinois, Springfield. She is the author or editor of three books and has written a number of journal articles and book chapters on Asian American literature, children’s literature, and popular culture.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments     Introduction: Heroines of Transnational Asian AmericaLan Dong      Part I: Myth, History and BeyondOf Princesses Pari and Fox Girls: Nora Okja Keller’s Transnational Performance of Korean Histories and MythsSilvia Schultermandl      Water Birth: Domestic Violence and Monstrosity in Hiromi Goto’s The Kappa ChildNancy Kang      Between Ruination and Reconciliation: Dragon Princesses, Cambodian American Heroines, and Loung Ung’s Lucky ChildCathy J. Schlund-Vials      Part II: Battles, Rituals and WorshipFrom Female Self-Sacrifice to Korean Freedom Fighter: Yu Guan Soon in Theresa Cha’s DictéeKaren An-hwei Lee      Merlinda Bobis: The Transnational Filipina Warrior Between the Postcolonial Exotic and the Babaylan/CatalonanMarie-Therese C. Sulit      Mulan Against Gwan Gung: Performing Myths on a Transnational StageLan Dong      Part III: Multination, Transnation and CommunitiesRe-Imagining Happily-Ever-After in Bharati Mukherjee’s JasmineAmy N. Nishimura      Adopting a Different Posture and Relocating One’s Roots: The Trung Legend in Vietnamese American NarrativesTina Lynn Powell      The Nicole Subic Rape Case and the Chingada in the Philippine ImaginaryDanicar Mariano      Part IV: (Un)Spoken Subjects, Cross-Cultural Heroines and MediaLost in Translation: American Critical Audience and the Transnational Chinese SwordswomanCatherine Gomes      Phoolan Devi: The Primordial Tradition of the Bandit QueenJ. Sunita Peacock      Translating Mother’s Tongue(s) and Traveling Bodies: Palimpsest and Diaspora in Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman WarriorPei-Ju Wu      About the Contributors      Index