Scrutinized!: Surveillance in Asian North American Literature 9780824838430

Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Under Scrutiny
2. Racial Playgrounds: Illusion and Danger in Don Lee’s Country of Origin
3. The Conspicuous Subjects of Interracial Spaces in Nina Revoyr’s Southland
4. Persistent Vigilance and Racial Longing in Choi’s Person of Interest and Kim’s The Interpreter
5. Intimate Details: Scrutiny and Evidentiary Photographs in Kerri Sakamoto’s The Electrical Field
6. Double Surveillance in Mohsin Hamid’s the Reluctant Fundamentalist
7. Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
Index
About the Author

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