In its diverse approaches–theoretical, philosophical, literary, cultural, and historical–and genres–criticism, essays, overviews, and interview–the collection persuasively demonstrates Yamashita's central role in orienting the direction of Asian American literary and cultural discourse in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. . . . Taken together, this collection of essays and voices powerfully demonstrates the reasons why Yamashita is a major author, one of the handful of Asian American writers who have been the subjects of essay collections or monographs, and whose creative vision has become a prognosticator of the concerns and values of contemporary cultural and literary discourse.–Sue-Im Lee, Temple University "MFS Modern Fiction Studies, 65:4 (Winter 2019)"