Multiethnic Literature and Canon Debates -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Multiethnic Literature in the Millennium -- PART I. HISTORICAL CONSIDERATIONS -- 1. From the Road Not Taken to the Multi-Lane Highway: MELUS, The Journal -- 2. On the Trail of the Chicana/o Subject: Literary Texts and Contexts in the Formation of Chicana/o Studies -- 3. "A House Made With Stones /Full of Stories": Anthologizing Native American Literature -- PART II. TEXTUAL READINGS -- 4. 'But is it Great?' The Question of the Canon for Italian American Women Writers -- 5. Racial Politics and the Literary Reception of Zora Neale Hurston'sTheir Eyes Were Watching God -- 6. De-Centering the Canon: Understanding The Great Gatsby as an Ethnic Novel -- 7. An Exile's Will to Canon and Its Tension with Ethnicity: Li-Young Lee -- PART III: POPULAR CULTURE -- 8. Canon-Openers, Book Clubs,and Middlebrow Culture -- 9. From the Boardroom to Cocktail Parties: "Great" Books, Multiethnic Literature, and the Production of the Professional Managerial Class in the Context of Globalization -- 10. It's Just Beginning: Assessing the Impact of the Internet on U.S.Multiethnic Literature and the "Canon" -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.