The Asian American avant-garde: universalist aspirations in modernist literature and art

Introduction: toward a Asian American modernism

Chinatown as universal region in Sui Sin Far's Mrs. spring fragrance.

"Little postage stamps of native soil": the modernist Haiku during Japanese exclusion

Renewing America in Dhan Gopal Mukerji's Caste and outcast and Younghill Kang's East goes west.

Popular front politics and nonlinear temporality in Carlos Bulosan's America is in the heart

Conclusion: Asian American universalism and the radicalism of performing "assimilation" during the Asian exclusion.