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To counteract the meagre critical attention paid to the subject of disability in John Okada’s No-No Boy, this article first explores how the dis/abled characters’ bodies and minds are besieged by ableist ideologies and how the book’s ableist body politic sacrifices racial affinities between first-generation Issei and second-generation Nisei. While the protagonist’s journey of redemption or rehabilitation climaxes in a tragic yet hopeful ending, this hope resides in ableist prerequisites and is located in two points in time—either a reconstructed, idealized past or an anticipated, promising future. No-No Boy ultimately ends up submitting to rather than challenging structural ablenationalism since Okada insists on the ableist myth of wholeness and does not recognize that we are always already disabled. As an alternative, this article views disability as necessary and internal to both the self and Other. Disability is constitutive of the subject in the radical sense that the subject does not pre-exist its disability but emerges through it. When we reorient ourselves to the ontological truth that disability is an internal and pre-existent division, we decrease the narcissistic investment in the ideal image of self and create the possibility of the subject’s disinvestment from ableist culture.

In his article \"Adoption, Cynical Detachment, and New Age Beliefs in Juno and Kung Fu Panda\" Fu-Jen Chen situates his study within today's prevailing climate of global consumption to argue that the 2007 film Juno--featuring an unconventional portrayal of the adoption triad and a cynical detachment from public values--not only trivializes and depoliticizes the practice of adoption but also serves as an ideological supplement to today's global capitalism. Furthermore, Kung Fu Panda 1 & 2 (2008; 2011) provide two ideological messages of contemporary New Age spirituality--\"the belief in nothing\" in part I, and \"the attitude of inner peace\" in part II--that fit with and even fuel the world market economy.

In his article \"About Paternal Voices in Adoption Narratives\" Fu-jen Chen examines the emerging voices of fathers in adoption discourse. Breaking the reticence and challenging the stereotypical profile of birth fathers and the father overall, birth fathers in narratives resort to essentialism or victimhood, a cultural imagination in adoption discourse. Further, Chen examines adoption narratives by adoptive fathers arguing that their reluctance to call for a father-to-father relationship--either rivalry or alliance--indicates a sign of disavowal of both subjective splitness and the structural deadlock. Chen argues that in paternal adoption narratives writing does not emerge as a political subject. Using the example of protagonist of Chang-rae Lee's A Gesture Life Chen demonstrates a potential to develop into an ethical subject in Lacanian terms.

In his article \"Adopting the Unadoptable/Disabled Subject in the Posthuman Era,\" Fu-Jen Chen first examines three memoirs that demonstrate prevalent features of today's narratives by parents with adopted children of special needs and next offers a theoretical and ontological investigation of disability. He suggests that we have to change the way we relate to disability: to recognize it not as an external limitation but an internal as well as pre-existent division and to re-orient ourselves to the ontological truth that we are always already \"disabled/otherized\" especially in the posthuman era when the body is seen to exceed existing boundaries of human topologies and to reinvent itself permanently along with prosthetic connections, accumulations, or consumption. Such a progress of \"becoming,\" though diversifying against the norm, does not necessarily challenge ableism and could be in tune with the logic of capitalism.

This special issue addresses the broad and complex nexus among three topics: belief, subjectivity, and contemporary global capitalism. It explores the intersection of material practices, ideational dimensions, and the subjective dynamics of global capitalism. The interdisciplinary contributions in this special issue come from authors in Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, South Korea, Turkey, and the United States. And the articles gathered in this issue are to explore a wide range of topics, varying from entrepreneurship and digital capitalism to neoliberalism and postfeminism; from fundamentalism and terrorism to Protestantism and contemporary homosexual identity; from body and ableism to mind and New Age spiritualism; from ecologies of racial capitalism to transnational adoption. Engaging multimedia texts including memoir, novel, film, critical theory, speech, drama, and performance, their works together open up new avenues of examining the juncture of belief, subjectivity, and global capitalism.

Using Gish Jen's Mona in the Promised Land and Rebecca Walker's Black White and Jewish, this essay explores a new mode of subjectivity in today's postmodern capitalist regime, an identity that incessantly moves among a proliferation of differences. The essay finally suggests a possible political identity, one that lies in acknowledging the extent of one's obedience to the Other, the recognition of the lack, and the ability to embrace a Lacanian \"partial enjoyment.\"

More than a spatial category or a topographical term, the US Southwest identifies a region geographically vast, cartographically elusive, and culturally heterogeneous. The contemporary Southwest is a north to Hispanic Americans as a lost homeland; a west to Anglo-Americans as a refuge free of schedules and materialistic, hierarchical lifestyles; and a spiritual and sacred center to Native Americans. Here, Chen and Yu examine the traumatic space in the Japanese American interment narratives.

Focusing on the relationship among three women (Blondie, Lan, and Mama Wong) in Gish Jen's The Love Wife, we shall explore the imaginary binary relationship between Blondie and Lan and the gaze of the (m)Other (Mama Wong) involved in the binary relationship. We are engaged in an arduous query-how does one deal with the Other woman, her otherness?-that can be explicated and linked to a larger social context: the relation between Western and Third-World women.

This special issue addresses the broad and complex nexus among three topics: belief, subjectivity, and contemporary global capitalism. It explores the intersection of material practices, ideational dimensions, and the subjective dynamics of global capitalism. The interdisciplinary contributions in this special issue come from authors in Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, South Korea, Turkey, and the United States. And the articles gathered in this issue are to explore a wide range of topics, varying from entrepreneurship and digital capitalism to neoliberalism and postfeminism; from fundamentalism and terrorism to Protestantism and contemporary homosexual identity; from body and ableism to mind and New Age spiritualism; from ecologies of racial capitalism to transnational adoption. Engaging multimedia texts including memoir, novel, film, critical theory, speech, drama, and performance, their works together open up new avenues of examining the juncture of belief, subjectivity, and global capitalism.