Acknowledgments Preface Abbreviations Introduction Chapter One The Cultural Politics of the Generation Gap Good Medicine Tastes Bitter: Cultural Identity (Re)formation in Louis Chu's Eat a Bowl of Tea Like Father, Like Son?: Intergenerational Conflict in Pardee Lowe's Father and Glorious Descendant The beginning is hers, the ending, mine: Mother-Daughter Talking Stories in Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior Your mother is in your blood: The Mother-Daughter Bond in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club Chapter Two The Politics and Art of Claiming America The Making of an American: A New Historicist Interpretation of Maxine Hong Kingston's China Men From Cultural Nationalism to Americanism: Frank Chin's Donald Duk in Perspective Rebel with a Cause: Jade Snow Wong's American Dream in her Fifth Chinese Daughter Shawn Wong's Quest for a Lonely Heritage in his Homebase Chapter Three Americanization and its Discontents America was no America: Cultural Disillusionment in Gish Jen's Typical American Paper is more precious than blood': Alienation and Abjection in Fae Myenne Ng's Bone Spare the Rod, Spoil the Child?: Americanization as Violence in Gus Lee's China Boy Nature versus Nurture: An Anatomy of Americanization in Eric Liu's The Accidental Asian Conclusion Bibliography
