"A Chinese Ishmael": Sui Sin Far, writing, and exile

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Joy M. Leighton is an Assistant Professor at Auburn University. She specializes in nineteenth-century American literature, Asian-American literature, and multi-ethnic literature. Currently she is working on a book project on the metaphysics of exile and its relation to the American self.

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