Index

Abdulhabi, Rabab, xx
abjection, 12–14, 37, 40, 60, 71, 98, 125; abject others, 13
African American, 13, 16, 34–35
aging, 90, 104–6
Allen, Woody, 78
Alsaybar, Bangele, 145n4
Al-Solaylee, Kamal, 64
Alsultany, Evelyn, xx
America: American dream, 3–5, 19, 64–65, 109; American son, 12; culture, 16, 75, 104; democracy, 14
Andersen, Hans Christian, 90
Ang, Ien, xxiv, xxx
Angel Island, 144n10
Appadurai, Arjun, xxix, 91
Aquino, Nina, xxxv, 63–76
Asian American, xv, xvii, xix, xxi, 46, 109, 125, 127; authors, xiv–xv, 94; employment, 55; identification, xxx; literature, xviii, xx, xxxii, 89; narratives, xxix; population, xxiii
Asian Canadian, xv, xvii, xix, xxi, 109, 150n1; authors, xiv–xv; demographics, xxiii; employment, 55; identification, xxx; literature, xviii, xxxii, 89; narratives, xxix, 77
Asian North American, xvi, xvii, xx; and displacement, xxvi–xxvii; globalization, xxx; narratives, xxix, 89, 109; Studies, xxxi; subjectivity, xix; as travelers, xxviii
assimilation, 70, 109; desire for, 58–59
Attebery, Brian, 149n2
Austen, Jane, 83–84

Bakhtin, M. M., 69–70, 90; Bakhtinian carnival, 83
Bales, Kevin, 24
Balibar, Etienne, 45, 146n2
Bannerji, Himani, xviii
Barber, Pauline, 74
Bartky, Sandra Lee, 72, 91, 106, 115–16
Basch, Linda, 6, 25–26
beauty, 105, 115–16; myth, 104, 106; pageant, 64–69, 73, 75
Beiser, Morton, 55
Bell, Shannon, 21–22
Bend It Like Beckham (Chadha), 77
Berson, Misha, 44
Bhabha, Homi, xxix, 71
Bhutto, Benazir, xiii
Bildungsroman (novel of development), 19, 110
Bollywood, 63, 76–77, 81, 86
Bollywood/Hollywood (Mehta), 76–86
borders: national, xiii, xiv; borderless, 19
boundaries, ix, xii; between dominant and minority culture, 44; weakening of, xiv
Braidotti, Rosi, 99, 111
Brecher, Jeremy, 104
Bulfinch, Thomas, 105
Bulosan, Carlos, xxxii, 89
Butler, Judith, xxx, 43, 82
Byczynski, Julie, 46

Campomanes, Oscar, xxvi
capitalism, ix, 97; critiques of global, xiv–xv, xxxvi, 4, 11
Carey, Mariah, 64, 69
Chan, Sucheng, 145n18
Chaucer, Geoffrey, 105
Cheah, Pheng, xxviii–xxix
Cheung, King-Kok, xix, xx
Chin, Frank, xxxii
China, 28, 30, 44, 91; memories of, 47–48
Chinese, xvii; Canadian, 45–53, 85; traditions, 47, 49; women, 29, 95
Chiu, Monica, 98–99, 122
Cho, Lily, xvi, xxi, 144n13
Choy, Wayson, 89
Chuh, Kandice, xix, xxiv
Clifford, James, xxvi, xxvii, xxix, xxxiii, 127
cloning, 90, 94, 97
Cohen, Robin, xxv–xxvi, xxxvi
cold war, xii–xiii
comedy, 63, 69, 79
cosmopolitanism, xxxvii
Costello, Tim, 104
Crosby, Janice, 90
Cuder-Dominguez, 148n4

Davis, Lennard, 43–44, 47
Day, Iyko, xxi
de Beauvoir, Simone, 43, 104
de Certeau, Michel, xxx, 62
denationalization, 150n2
Desai, Jigna, 79, 85
diaspora, xvi, xviii, xxi, 30, 100, 127, 144n13; diasporic culture, 49, 75
Dimock, Wai Chee, 150n3
Dirlik, Arif, xii, xiv, xxv, xxxii, 4, 95, 101
disability, xxxiv, 43–62, 90
dislocation. See displacement
displacement, xxvi–xxvii, xxxiii, 18–19, 44–45, 53, 127
Dissanayake, Wimal, xxxii
Divakaruni, Chitra, xxxvi, 89–91, 100–107
domestic worker, x–xi, xxvi, 73–74
dystopia, xxxvi, 98

Earth (Mehta), 76, 80, 147n3
Eaton, Edith Maude: and Winnifred, xix
Edwards, Brent, xiii
Egoyan, Atom, 79–80
Ehrenreich, Barbara, xxvi, 21
Eng, David, 9–10, 58, 71, 145n5; Q & A, xx
Enloe, Cynthia, 23
environment, xiii, xxxvi
Espiritu, Yen Le, 55
ethnoscape, 91
exclusion law, xvi
Exit Wounds (Bartkowiak), 148n7
Exotica (Egoyan), 148n7

Factory Theatre, 52, 71
fantasy, xxxvi, 90, 107, 117–18, 127–28
father figure, 12, 59, 109
Featherstone, Mike, 63
femininity, 106
feminism: feminist elements, 63; feminist studies, xxxi
Filipinos, 68; Filipina bodies, xxxv, 17–18; Filipino Canadians, 63–76; overseas, 143n4; women, 73; youths, 3–19, 145n4
Finney, Gail, 69–70
Fire (Mehta), 76, 80, 86, 147n3
food: imagery, 115; production issues, 120–21, 126
Foucault, Michel, 64, 91
Fraser, Nancy, 93
Freeman, John, 13
Fung, Richard, xix

Gamber, John, xviii
Gawle, Rupa, 77
Gere, Richard, 77
Gessler, Nicholas, 112
Glick Schiller, Nina, 6, 24–26
globality, ix–xiii, 62, 109; critical, xiii, xv, xxx; global identity, 86; literature, xxxvii
globalization, ix, xi–xv, xviii, 90, 109, 144n7; critiques, 15, 109; effects, xxv, xxviii, xxxvii, 4–6, 16, 102, 104; first phase, 24–25; and local, xxxi, 78–79; servants of, xi; and women, xxvi, 21
Goellnicht, Donald, xviii, xxi, 9, 27, 30, 95
Gopinath, Gayatri, 32
Goto, Hiromi, xxxvi, 89, 108–20, 127–28
Grewal, Inderpal, xxxiii
Groen, Rick, 76, 78
grotesque, 116
Gunter, Bernhard, xv

Hagedorn, Jessica, xxxii, 89
Hall, Stuart, 79, 125
Hattori, Tomo, 123–24
Hayles, Katherine, 112
hemispheric, xx
heteroglossia, 70
history: omissions, 20–24, 73, 94–95, 101
Hochschild, Arlie, xxvi, 21
Hollywood: films, 80–81, 116; influence of, 4–5, 17, 64, 77; parody of, 63
Hom, Alice, xx
Homans, Margaret, 149n3
Hornaday, Ann, 76
Hou, Feng, 55
Hsu, Hsuan, 15, 145n6
Hutcheon, Linda, 77
hybridity, xxix, 125; hybrid identity, 69, 85, 91, 114, 117
illness, 38; depression, 28, 54, 117; sexually transmitted diseases, 28–29, 31, 40
Imbert, Patrick, xxiv–xxv, xxxvi
immigration, xi; children of, 5, 49; compared to European immigrants, xxii; employment, 55; sending countries, xvii
imperialism, xiii
India, 44; Indian Canadian, 53–62, 76–86; memories of, 61; rituals, 55–56; women, 56
Irigaray, Luce, 51
Iyer, Pico, xvi

Jameson, Fredric, 93, 99
Japan, 28
Japanese American, 150n4
Japanese Canadian identity, 114
Japanese North American, xxxvi; literature, 108–28
Jen, Gish, 89
Julien, Isaac, 10, 11

Kamboureli, Smaro, xxvii
Kamel, Rachel, 121
Kang, Laura Hyun Yi, 95–96, 109
Kearns, Katherine, 20
Keller, Nora Okja, xxx, xxxiii, 20–23, 33–40, 109
Kim, Elaine, xviii, 21
Kingston, Maxine Hong, xxxii, 89, 94
Kirkland, Bruce, 81
Kitchener (Ontario), 53
Kogawa, Joy, xix, xxxii, 89, 108
Korea: camptown, xxxiv, 33–34; Korean War, xxxiii, 33, 35; women, xxxiv, 33–40
Koshy, Susan, xxii, xxiv
Kostash, Myrna, 144n14
Kottayam (India), 53–54
Kristeva, Julia, xxxi, 13–14, 98
Kuch, Kuch Hoa Hai (Johar), 148n9
Kuruvilla, Sunil, xxx, xxxiv, 44–45, 53–62
Kwa, Lydia, xxx, xxxiii, 20–33, 109

labor: flexibilization of, xi, 95–97; international division of, xii; migrant, xi
Lai, Larissa, xx, xxxvi, 89–100, 107, 109
Latinos, 13, 16
Lee, Ang, xxxvii
Lee, Chang-rae, 89
Lee, Erika, xx
Lee, Rachel, xxxii
Lee, Robert, 10
Lee, Tara, 97
legend: Arthurian, 105
Levitt, Peggy, 48
Li, David, xxxii, 14
Lieu, Nhi T., 64
Lim, Shirley, xvii–xviii
Ling, Amy, xviii, xxvi
Little, Judy, 69–70
Little House on the Prairie (Wilder), 111–13
Lo, Marie, xxi
Lowe, Lisa, xix, xxi, 125
Luscombe, Karen, 149n7

Mackey, Eva, xxiv
magic realism, xxxvi, 100, 110, 149n8
Manlove, Colin, 90
Marcos, Imelda, 64, 73
masculinity, 4, 8–11; Asian males, 9–10, 58; war, 23, 40
Massey, Douglas, xxii
McClintock, Anne, 63
Mehta, Deepa, xxxv–xxxvi, 63, 76–86, 147–48n4
memory, 91–95, 98
Mennonite, 55, 57
Mercer, Kobena, 10, 11
Merlin, Lara, 102
Miki, Roy, xxvii, 112–13, 150n1
minority: model, xxiii, xxxvi, 113, 122–24, 128
Miriam, Kathy, 40
Mishra, Vijay, 77, 84, 148n5
Mississauga (Ontario), x, 67, 68, 143n2
Miss Orient(ed) (Aquino and Villasin), xxxv, 63–76, 147n1; photographs, 65, 66
Mistress of Spices, The (Berges), 101
Miyoshi, Masao, xiv, xxv–xxvi
mobility, xi, xii, xvi, xvii, xxiv, xxvii–xxix, xxxiv, 102, 127; and motion, xv, 144n9
Moodley, Kogila, xxiii–xxiv
Moon, Katharine, 23, 34–37
Mootoo, Shani, xix
Morris, Robyn, 149n6
mother: motherhood, 90; mothering, 38
Mother Tongue (Quan), 44–53, 146n1
Moulin Rouge (Luhrmann), 77
Mukherjee, Bharati, xx
Mullard, C., xxiv
multiculturalism, xi; Canada’s official, xxiii
Muppidi, Himadeep, xvii
music: musical comedy, 63
My Big Fat Greek Wedding (Zwick), 148n6
Myers, Linda, xiii
myths, xxxvi, 90, 104, 128; fox girl, 39; Jingwei (bird), 52–53; kappa (water sprite), 119–20; Pallas, 149n5

Naber, Nadine, xx
Naficy, Hamid, 80
nation: nation building, 39–40
Native American, 102–3
Nguyen, Viet, xxviii
Nicholson, Linda, 93
nostalgia, 67

Oakland, California, 90, 100, 102, 107
Okada, John, 108
Okihiro, Gary, xxiii
Oliver, Kelly, xxxi, 21, 27, 50–51, 116–17
Ondaatje, Michael, xxxvii
Ong, Aihwa, xii, 95, 97; flexible citizenship, xxvi
Ong, Han, xxxiii, 4, 12–19
“Oriental,” 64, 75, 109, 113; Oriental ism, 99
otherness, 7, 10–11, 14, 34, 37, 44, 110; alien, 111; monstrous, 99; racial, 149n6, 9; women, 22, 116–17
Ozeki, Ruth, xx, xxxvi, 108–10, 113, 120–28

Pacino, Al, 80
Palumbo-Liu, 124
parody, 63, 70, 72
Parreñas, Rhacel, xi, 4, 6–7, 74, 145n17
Pearson, Wendy, 112
performative, 82–83
Philippines, 40, 64–68
Pilgrim’s Progress (Bunyan), 92
Pirbhai, Mariam, 150n4
Polan, Dana, 3
postmodernism, xviii, 93, 99
poststructuralism, xviii
Pratt, Mary Louise, xxxiv
Pretty Woman (Marshall), 77–78, 83–84
prostitutes, xxxiii, 20–40, 146n1; ah ku, 23, 25, 26, 28–33, 146n3, 4; karayuki-san, 23, 146n3, 4; male, 12, 16; tap tang, 30
psychoanalysis, xviii

Quan, Betty, xxxiv, 44–53, 62
queer sexuality, 30–32, 85–86; desire, 90

Rabie, Lisa, 53
race: classification, xxii, 144n14; identity, 43; racialized bodies, xi, 8; racism, xix, 5
Raethel, Miriam, 148n2
Rai, Aishwarya, 104
Rajan, Gita, xxvii, 100, 149n8
Rao, Raj, 150n6
Ray, Lisa, 148n10
Realuyo, Bino, 145n2, 147n2
recognition, 50
Reed, Susan, 105
Rice Boy (Kuruvilla), 44–45, 53–62, 146n3; photograph, 54
Rich, Adrienne, 40, 109
Roberts, Julia, 77, 83
Roediger, David, xxii, 144n14
Roley, Brian Ascalon, xxxiii, 3–12
Ross, Andrew, 97
Rushdie, Salman, xxxvii, 67, 150n4
Russo, Mary, 116

Safran, William, xxi
Salonga, Lea, 73
San Francisco, 65
San Juan, Epifanio Jr., 3
Santos, Bienvenido, 146n7
Schiller, Nina Glick. See Glick Schiller, Nina
science fiction, 93, 110–11, 117–18, 149n2
See, Sarita, 145n3
sex workers, xxxiii, 20–40
Shakespeare, William, 80, 84
Sharma, Shailja, xxvii
Shaw, Martin, x, xii
Shohat, Ella, 77–78, 145n1
simulacrum, 93
Singapore, 23–28
Sohn, Stephen, xviii
Sone, Monica Itoi, 108
Sook, Kong, 113
South Asian, xvii; diasporic community, xxxv–xxxvi, 63, 76–86, 90, 100–107
South Asian American literature, xx
Spivak, Gayatri, 82
Stallybrass, Peter, 76
Stam, Robert, 77–78, 145n1
Sterling, Bruce, 112
Stewart, Susan, 66–67
subjectivity: collective, xviii; intersubjectivity, 50
Sumi, Glenn, 52
Sumida, Stephen, xviii
Szanton Blanc, Cristina, 6, 25–26

tactics, xxxi, xxxvi, 62
Takaki, Ronald, 9
Tan, Amy, 89, 94
Teles, Steven, xiii
Third World, xiv, xxiv; labor, 95
Toronto, 63, 65, 67, 69, 71, 77, 78–79
transmigrants, 6–7, 12, 17, 19, 26, 74
transnationalism, xviii; corporations, xiv, 121–22; emotional, 5, 48, 69; labor, 95, 109; transnational, xii, xx, 25, 44–45, 54, 101
trauma, 50–51
travel, xxvii–xxviii, xxxiii; travelers, xxviii
Ty, Eleanor: Asian Canadian Writing, xviii; Politics of the Visible, 102, 149n9

unfastened, xxi, xxvi

Valentino, Gina, xviii
Vancouver, xx, 65, 67, 90
Van der Hoeven, Rolph, xv
Verduyn, Christl, xviii
Villasin, Nadine, xxxv, 63–76
violence, 9–12, 40
visible minority, xvii, xxii–xxiii
Warren, James Francis, 23, 28–29, 145n19, 146n3, 4
Water (Mehta), 76, 147n3, 4
Waters, Mary, 48
Waugh, Thomas, 85
Weinbaum, Alys, xiii
Wendell, Susan, 60
White, Allon, 76
whiteness, xxii
Wilson, Rob, xxxi–xxxii
Wimmer, Andreas, 24–25, 26
witnessing, 50–51
Wolf, Diane L., 5, 69
Wolf, Naomi, 104
Wolmark, Jenny, 93
Wong, Jade Snow, 94
Wong, K. Scott, 145n18
Wong, Sau-ling, xv, xviii, xx, xxxii, 9, 94, 148n3, 150n2

Xie, Shaobo, xv

Yamamoto, Traise, 150n4
Yamashita, Karen Tei, 89
Yergin, Daniel, ix–x,
Yu, Henry, xxi, 144n11
Yuen-Carrucan, Jasmine, 147n4

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