Alien Forms and Minor Genres

Tina Chen is Associate Professor of English and Asian American Studies and Director of the Global Asias Initiative at The Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of Double Agency: Acts of Impersonation in Asian American Literature and Culture and founding editor of Verge: Studies in Global Asias.

Acknowledgments ix
I. Unlikely Propositions: A Trio of Introductions
Introduction 1. Book Proposal  3
Introduction 2. A (Speculative) Faculty Activity Report   18
Introduction 3. Lesson Plans  44
II. Minor Genres and the Shadow Archive
Free Agents?: Statement of Purpose  67
Minor Genres of Academic Writing and the Shadow Archive: PowerPoint Presentation  70
Working As/Through Alien Form: An Annotated Bibliography  84
Global Asias: Method, Architecture, Praxis. An Annotated Essay 127
What If, If Only, and If This Goes On: Reimagining Scholarly Activity Through Global Asias Practice. Statement of Endeavors  151
III. Alien Abduction, Alien Form
Alien Abduction, Alien Form. Conference Paper 159
Syllabus 1. AlieNation: Asian American Literatures  165
Syllabus 2. Speculative Fictions: Worldbreaking, Worldtaking, Worldmaking  169
Syllabus 3. Cnotemporary Ethnic American Literatures: Reading Beyond Race  177
Alien Abduction, Alien Form: Research Essay  186
Coda. Editorial Dossier 211
Appendix  245
References  253
Index