Myth, Montage, and Visuality in Late Medieval Manuscript Culture: Christine de Pizan's Epistre Othea (review)

critically Americanist lens is to revisit various legal and literary narratives of Asian Americana, while drawing on theoretical perspectives fromAmerican-Continental philosophy, critical race theory, legal theory, and feminist jurisprudential scholarship. Consequently a fresh analysis of Lois Ann Yamanka’s Blu’s Hanging, hitherto read mostly in terms of postcolonialism, rescues the specifically Hawaiian context (chapter 1).Transnationalismpassively lodged in racial essentialism, illustrated by the case of Japanese internment during World War II (chapter 2) and that of the Korean diaspora (chapter 3), is brought to the fore, reworked deconstructively into an analytic tool for recognizing the essentially and structurally undecidable spaces of the U.S. nation. Then the final chapter (chapter 4), entitled ‘‘(Dis)owning America,’’ loops back into the twofold critique of Asian-American paradigms and U.S. nationalism by commenting on and theorizing about the twofold analytic strategy itself: the strategy of of recovering the new from the old being reworked. Indeed, a different line of thoughts emerging from such a critical repetition, the author claims, ‘‘helps us to imagine otherwise in multiple senses’’ (29).