Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-202) and index.
1. Mimic modernity : "Madame Butterfly" and the erotics of informal empire -- 2. Eugenic romances of American nationhood -- 3. Unincorporated territories of desire : hypercorporeality and miscegenation in Carlos Bulosan's writings -- 4. Sex acts as assimilation acts : female power and passing in Bharati Mukherjee's Wife and Jasmine