UnfastenedUnfastened examines literary works and films by Asian Americans and Asian Canadians that respond critically to globalitythe condition in which traditional national, cultural, geographical, and economic boundaries have beensupposedlysurmounted. In this wide ranging exploration, Eleanor Ty reveals how novelists such as Brian Ascalon Roley, Han Ong, Lydia Kwa, and Nora Okja Keller interrogate the theoretical freedom that globalization promises in their