Introduction / A. Robert Lee -- Karen Tei Yamashita and the cultivation of cosmopolitan virtue / Cyrus R.K. Patell -- Narratives of dislocation in the novels of Karen Tei Yamashita, Joy Kogawa, and Julie Otsuka / Cynthia F. Wong -- "Dancing with goblins in plastic jungles" : history, nikkei transnationalism, and romantic environmentalism in Through the arc of the rain forest / John B. Gamber -- Did you hear the one about ...? : humor in Through the arc of the rain forest and Brazil-Maru / Chris LaLonde -- Environment, justice, aesthetics : Through the arc of the rain forest and My year of meats / Bella Adams -- An incomplete journey : settlement and power in Brazil-Maru / Nicholas Birns -- Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of orange and chaos theory : angels and a motley crew / Ruth Y. Hsu -- (Re)production cycles : labor and identity in Circle K cycles / Nathan Ragain -- House of memory : imagining Karen Tei Yamashita's I Hotel / A. Robert Lee -- Shift of scene : re-viewing Anime Wong / A. Robert Lee -- Reimagining traveling bodies : bridging the future/past / Karen Tei Yamashita -- Speaking craft : an interview with Karen Tei Yamashita / A. Robert Lee.