Table of Contents

Contents

Introduction: Inhuman Citizenship

1. Melancholic Citizenship: The Living Dead and Fae Myenne Ng’s Bone

2. Shameful Citizenship: Animal Jouissance and Brian Ascalon Roley’s American Son

3. Romantic Citizenship: Immigrant–Nation Romance, the Antifetish, and Chang-rae Lee’s Native Speaker

4. Perverse Citizenship: The Death Drive and Suki Kim’s The Interpreter

Coda

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Juliana Chang is associate professor in the English Department at Santa Clara University.

Reviews

""Inhuman Citizenship" has much to offer; it will make important interventions in our current understanding of the position of Asian American literature within larger canons of American literary studies. There is much to be admired here." --Karen Shimakawa, author of "National Abjection: The Asian American Body Onstage"