"Cathy Schlund-Vials's timely and thoughtful book...probes into what it might mean for Asian American literary studies if the trope of naturalization were the hinge on which studies of Asian American racialization were to pivot... One of the multiple strengths of Schlund-Vials's work is her ability to negotiate thorny debates within Asian American literary studies... [Schlund-Vials's] stunning approach to negotiating difference ... Read moreputs [her] work at the center of emergent debates on how and where an attention to comparative modes of analyses can transform the paradigms of Asian American literary analysis... Modeling Citizenship does for Asian American literary studies what Jonathan Freedman's Klezmer America does for Jewish American literary studies." - Amerasia 37:2, 2011 Show Less