Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE: Instituting Minor Literatures -- "Border" Studies: The Intersection of Gender and Color -- Canon, Institutionalization, Identity: Contradictions for Asian American Studies -- PART TWO: The Construction of the Ethnic -- The Borders of Modernity: Américo Paredes's Between Two Worlds and the Chicano National Subject -- Telling the différance: Representations of Identity in the Discourse of Indianness -- The Politics of Carnival and Heteroglossia in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man: Dialogic Criticism and African American Literature -- Tropology of Hunger: The "Miseducation" of Richard Rodriguez -- Calculated Musings: Richard Rodríguez's Metaphysics of Difference -- "Sugar Sisterhood": Situating the Amy Tan Phenomenon -- PART THREE: The Ethnic, the Nation, and the Canon -- In Search of Filipino Writing: Reclaiming Whose "America"? -- A Rough Terrain: The Case of Shaping an Anthology of Caribbean Women Writers -- M. Butterfly and the Rhetoric of Antiessentialism: Minority Discourse in an International Frame -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.