The Asian American Avant-GardeThe Asian American Avant Garde is the first book length study that conceptualizes a long neglected canon of early Asian American literature and art. Audrey Wu Clark traces a genealogy of counter universalism in short fiction, poetry, novels, and art produced by writers and artists of Asian descent who were responding to their contemporary period of Asian exclusion in the United States, between the years 1882 and 1945. Believing in the promise of an