Transitive Cultures: Anglophone Literature of the Transpacific

Winner of the 2020 Shelley Fisher Fishkin Prize from the American Studies Association

Texts written by Southeast Asian migrants have often been read, taught, and studied under the label of multicultural literature. But what if the ideology of multiculturalism—with its emphasis on authenticity and identifiable cultural difference—is precisely what this literature resists?

Transitive Cultures offers a new perspective on transpacific Anglophone literature, revealing how these chameleonic wri...