Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Overviews, Review-Essays, Interviews, Reviews
  • Ethnics Behaving Badly: U.S. Multicultural Narratives
  • Multicultural Renaissance: Rudolfo Anaya. Louise Erdrich, Maxine Hong Kingston
  • Decolonizing America: Ernest Gaines, José Antonio Villareal, Leslie Marmon Silko, Shawn Wong
  • Black American Fiction since Richard Wright
  • I Am Your Worst Nightmare: I Am an Indian with a Pen-Fictions of the Indian, Native Fictions
  • Imagined Cities of China: Timothy Mo's London, Sky Lee's Vancouver, Fay Myenne Ng's San Francisco and Gish Jen's New York
  • Insider, Outsider: Japanese America Writing Japan
  • Ethnicities Old and New in American Theatre: LeRoi Jones/Imamu Amiri Baraka, Luis Valdez, Frank Chin, and Hanay Geiogamah
  • Ethnicity, Race and Life Writing
  • Sleuthing American Ethnicity
  • Afro-America, the Before Columbus Foundation and the Literary Multiculturalization of America
  • U.S. Multicultural Pathways
  • Missing Pages: Admissions and Omissions in Oxford's American Poetry
  • Margins at the Center
  • China Magic, Barrio Magic
  • Iconic Dates
  • Latin Sights
  • Ask Your Mama: Langston Hughes, the Blues, and Black Studies
  • Hurts, Absurdities and Violence: The Contrary Dimensions of Chester Himes
  • Postindian Comments: Gerald Vizenor
  • Chinatowns, Railroads, and Lanterns: Frank Chin
  • Outside Shadow: Louis Owens
  • Western Sightings: John G. Cawelti
  • Denver Mysteries: Rex Burns
  • Talking Multiculture: A. Robert Lee with Nicholas Williams.