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Double Agency
Acts of Impersonation in Asian American Literature and Culture
Tina Chen

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Acknowledgments

Preface: On Impersonation and the Nature of the Not-so-secret Agent

Part I: Impersonation and Stereotype

1.      Impersonation and Double Agency: Theorizing the Practice, Practicing the Theory

2.      Dissecting the "Devil Doctor": Stereotype and Sensationalism in Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu

3.      De/Posing Stereotype on the Asian American Stage

Part II: Double Agents, Double Agency

4.      Bodily Negotiations: The Politics of Performance in Hualing Nieh's Mulberry and Peach

5.      Shamanism and the Subject(s) of History in Nora Okja Keller's Comfort Woman

6.      Impersonation and Other Disappearing Acts: The Double(d) Agent of Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker

Coda

Notes

Works Cited

Index