Simultaneously transgressive and submissive, May Lin's texts stand in ironic counterpoint to both hegemonic modernist dialectic and charming postmodernist obscurantism. Her subversive textual inscriptions are not only postfuturist but postcultural, and indeed postliterate, in that they seek to deconstruct the very underpinnings of the relational fabric of postcolonial reconceptualizations of contextual self-construction; narrative becomes meta-narrative, constructed as oppositional not just to hegemonic discourse but to all discursive hermeneutics, which Lin's texts construct as metonymizing -- and thereby empowering -- the "other", both textually and contextually.