Contents:
  • Identity in community in ethnic short story cycles : Amy Tan's The joy luck club, Louise Erdrich's Love medicine, Gloria Naylor's The women of Brewster Place / Rocío G. Davis
  • Marking race, marketing race : African American short fiction and the politics of genre, 1933-1946 / Bill Mullen
  • Womanist storytelling : the voice of the vernacular / Madelyn Jablon
  • Minor revolution : Chicano/a composite novels and the limits of genre / Margot Kelley
  • Resistance and reinvention in Sandra Cisneros' Woman hollering creek / Susan E. Griffin
  • Healing ceremonies : Native American stories of cultural survival / Linda Palmer
  • Asian American short stories : dialogizing the Asian American experience / Qun Wang
  • Invention of normality in Japanese American internment narratives / John Streamas
  • No types of ambiguity : teaching Chinese American texts in Hong Kong / Hardy C. Wilcoxon
  • "Wavering" images : mixed-race identity in the stories of Edith Eaton, Sui Sin Far / Carol Roh-Spaulding
  • Resistance and reclamation : Hawaii "pidgin English" and autoethnography in the short stories of Darrell H.Y. Lum / Gail Y. Okawa
  • Conflict over privacy in Indo-American short fiction / Laurie Leach
  • Re-orienting the subject : Arab American ethnicity in Ramzi M. Salti's The native informant : six tales of defiance from the Arab world / Chris Wise
  • Naming of Katz : who am I? who am I supposed to be? who can I be? passing, assimilation, and embodiment in short fiction by Fannie Hurst and Thyra Samter Winslow with a few jokes thrown in and various references to other others / Susan Koppelman.