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Minor Feelings: A Reckoning on Race and the Asian Condition by Cathy Park Hong
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.18WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR AUTOBIOGRAPHY 2021 FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION 2021 A New York Times Top Book of 2020 Chosen as a Guardian Book of 2020 A BBC Culture Best Books of 2020 Nominated... -
Treacherous Subjects: Gender, Culture, and Trans-Vietnamese Feminism by Lan P. Duong
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $28.20How gender shapes cultural production in Viet Nam and its diaspora.How gender shapes cultural production in Viet Nam and its diaspora.About the AuthorLan P. Duong is Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California,... -
Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects by Christina Elizabeth Sharpe
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $26.05Arguing that the fundamental, familiar, sexual violence of slavery and racialized subjugation have continued to shape black and white subjectivities into the present, Christina Sharpe interprets African diasporic and Black Atlantic visual and literary... -
Ornamentalism by Anne Anlin Cheng
Booksplease Price: $28.35Focusing on the cultural and philosophic conflation between the "oriental" and the "ornamental," Ornamentalism offers an original and sustained theory about Asiatic femininity in western culture. This study pushes our vocabulary about the woman of color... -
Exilee and Temps Morts: Selected Works by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha 9780520391598
RRP: $30.96Booksplease Price: $25.58In her radical exploration of cultural and personal identity, the writer and artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha sought "the roots of language before it is born on the tip of the tongue." Her first book, the highly original postmodern text Dictee, is now an... -
Economic Citizens: A Narrative of Asian American Visibility by Christine So 9781592135844
RRP: $60.63Booksplease Price: $55.56Economic Citizens argues that Asians have been traditionally imagined as the threat of capitalism gone awry and demonstrates that the logic of economic exchange has been an overlooked but critical means for Asian Americans to negotiate political and... -
The Children of 1965: On Writing, and Not Writing, as an Asian American by Min Hyoung Song 9780822354512
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $32.53Since the 1990s, a new cohort of Asian American writers has garnered critical and popular attention. Many of its members are the children of Asians who came to the United States after the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 lifted long-standing... -
Invisible Subjects: Asian America in Postwar Literature by Heidi Kim 9780190456252
RRP: $118.68Booksplease Price: $104.58Invisible Subjects broadens the archive of Asian American studies, using advances in Asian American history and historiography to reinterpret the politics of the major figures of post-World War II American literature and criticism. Taking its... -
Narrating Nationalisms: Ideology and Form in Asian American Literature by Jinqi Ling 9780195111163
RRP: $101.91Booksplease Price: $84.75This book rereads five major works by John Okada, Louis Chu, Frank Chin, and Maxine Hong Kingston in order to reconceptualize the relationship between the past and present of postwar Asian American literary history. Drawing on work in cultural studies,... -
Writer in Exile/Writer in Revolt: Critical Perspectives on Carlos Bulosan by Jeffrey Arellano Cabusao 9780761867678
RRP: $47.73Booksplease Price: $43.58Writer in Exile/Writer in Revolt: Critical Perspectives on Carlos Bulosan gathers pioneering essays by major scholars in Filipino American Studies, American Studies, and Philippine Studies as well as historic documents on Carlos Bulosan's work and life... -
Recontextualizing Asian American Domesticity: From Madame Butterfly to My American Wife! by Seung Ah Oh 9780739122785
RRP: $118.68Booksplease Price: $103.95From the Eaton sisters' literary works at the previous turn of the century to Gish Jen's 2004 novel The Love Wife, Recontextualizing Asian American Domesticity explores the ways in which the trope of American domesticity is experimented, resisted, and... -
Approaches to Teaching the Works of Karen Tei Yamashita by Ruth Y. Hsu 9781603295406
RRP: $98.04Booksplease Price: $90.39Structurally innovative and culturally expansive, the works of Karen Tei Yamashita invite readers to rethink conventional paradigms of genres and national traditions. Her novels, plays, and other texts refashion forms like the immigrant tale, the... -
Approaches to Teaching the Works of Karen Tei Yamashita by Ruth Y. Hsu 9781603295413
RRP: $39.93Booksplease Price: $39.20Structurally innovative and culturally expansive, the works of Karen Tei Yamashita invite readers to rethink conventional paradigms of genres and national traditions. Her novels, plays, and other texts refashion forms like the immigrant tale, the... -
Asian American Fiction After 1965: Transnational Fantasies of Economic Mobility by Christopher T. Fan 9780231213233
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $31.42After the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act loosened discriminatory restrictions, people from Northeast Asian countries such as South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, and eventually China immigrated to the United States in large numbers. Highly skilled Asian... -
Displacing Kinship: The Intimacies of Intergenerational Trauma in Vietnamese American Cultural Production by Linh Thuy Nguyen 9781439924709
RRP: $33.53Booksplease Price: $30.37Nearly fifty years after the end of the war in Vietnam, American children of Vietnamese refugees continue to process the meanings of the war and its consequences through creative work. Displacing Kinship examines how Vietnamese American cultural... -
Displacing Kinship: The Intimacies of Intergenerational Trauma in Vietnamese American Cultural Production by Linh Thuy Nguyen 9781439924693
RRP: $122.55Booksplease Price: $101.90Nearly fifty years after the end of the war in Vietnam, American children of Vietnamese refugees continue to process the meanings of the war and its consequences through creative work. Displacing Kinship examines how Vietnamese American cultural... -
Transnational Asian American Literature: Sites and Transits by Shirley Lim 9781592134519
RRP: $33.53Booksplease Price: $30.37Examines the diasporic and transnational aspects of Asian American literature and engages works of prose and poetry as aesthetic articulations of the fluid transnational identitiesExamines the diasporic and transnational aspects of Asian American... -
Across Meridians: History and Figuration in Karen Tei Yamashita's Transnational Novels by Jinqi Ling 9780804778015
Booksplease Price: $74.60Over the course of the last two decades, novelist Karen Tei Yamashita has reshaped the Asian American literary imagination in profound ways. In Across Meridians, Jinqi Ling offers readers the most critically engaged examination to date of Yamashita's... -
Tonal Intelligence: The Aesthetics of Asian Inscrutability During the Long Cold War by Sunny Xiang 9780231196963
Booksplease Price: $123.71Why were U.S. intelligence organizations so preoccupied with demystifying East and Southeast Asia during the mid-twentieth century? Sunny Xiang offers a new way of understanding the American cold war in Asia by tracing aesthetic manifestations of... -
Foreign Accents: Chinese American Verse from Exclusion to Postethnicity by Steven G. Yao 9780199730339
Booksplease Price: $56.79Foreign Accents sets forth a historical poetics of verse by writers of Chinese descent in the U.S. from the early twentieth century to the present. With readings of works by Ezra Pound, Li-young Lee, Marilyn Chin, Ha Jin, and John Yau, this study charts... -
Cold War Friendships: Korea, Vietnam, and Asian American Literature by Josphine Nock-Hee Park 9780190257668
Booksplease Price: $146.69Cold War Friendships explores the plight of the Asian ally of the American wars in Korea and Vietnam. Enlisted into proxy warfare, this figure is not a friend but a "friendly," a wartime convenience enlisted to serve a superpower. It is through this... -
Economic Citizens: A Narrative of Asian American Visibility by Christine So 9781592135851
Booksplease Price: $32.62Economic Citizens argues that Asians have been traditionally imagined as the threat of capitalism gone awry and demonstrates that the logic of economic exchange has been an overlooked but critical means for Asian Americans to negotiate political and... -
The Semblance of Identity: Aesthetic Mediation in Asian American Literature by Christopher Lee 9780804778701
Booksplease Price: $69.25The history of Asian American literature reveals the ongoing attempt to work through the fraught relationship between identity politics and literary representation. This relationship is especially evident in literary works which claim that their content... -
Sexual Naturalization: Asian Americans and Miscegenation by Susan Koshy 9780804747288
RRP: $122.55Booksplease Price: $122.49Sexual Naturalization offers compelling new insights into the racialized constitution of American nationality. In the first major interdisciplinary study of Asian-white miscegenation from the late nineteenth to the end of the twentieth century, Koshy... -
Cities of Others: Reimagining Urban Spaces in Asian American Literature by Xiaojing Zhou 9780295994031
Booksplease Price: $37.35Asian American literature abounds with complex depictions of American cities as spaces that reinforce racial segregation and prevent interactions across boundaries of race, culture, class, and gender. However, in Cities of Others, Xiaojing Zhou uncovers... -
The Columbia Guide to Asian American Literature Since 1945 by Guiyou Huang 9780231126205
Booksplease Price: $96.75Guiyou Huang traces the history of Asian American literature from the end of World War II to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Huang covers six genres: anthology, autobiography/memoir, drama, fiction, poetry, and short fiction; reviews major... -
Writers of the Black Chicago Renaissance by Steven C. Tracy 9780252036392
Booksplease Price: $150.87Writers of the Black Chicago Renaissance comprehensively explores the contours and content of the Black Chicago Renaissance, a creative movement that emerged from the crucible of rigid segregation in Chicago's "Black Belt" from the 1930s through the... -
Constructing the Enemy: Empathy/Antipathy in U.S. Literature and Law by Rajini Srikanth 9781439903230
RRP: $95.46Booksplease Price: $85.76An argument, based in history, law, literature, and philosophy, for empathy as an integral part of decisions about who will be designated an enemy of the stateAn argument, based in history, law, literature, and philosophy, for empathy as an integral part... -
Repetition and Race: Asian American Literature After Multiculturalism by Amy C. Tang 9780190464387
RRP: $118.68Booksplease Price: $94.66Repetition and Race explores the literary forms and critical frameworks occasioned by the widespread institutionalization of liberal multiculturalism by turning to the exemplary case of Asian American literature. Whether beheld as "model minorities" or... -
The Politics of the Visible in Asian North American Narratives by Eleanor Ty 9780802088314
RRP: $60.63Booksplease Price: $53.96Examining nine Asian Canadian and Asian American narratives, Eleanor Ty explores how authors empower themselves, represent differences, and re-script their identities as 'visible minorities' within the ideological, imaginative, and discursive space given... -
Transitive Cultures: Anglophone Literature of the Transpacific by Christopher B. Patterson
Booksplease Price: $45.64Winner of the 2020 Shelley Fisher Fishkin Prize from the American Studies Association Texts written by Southeast Asian migrants have often been read, taught, and studied under the label of multicultural literature. But what if the ideology of... -
Thinking Its Presence: Form, Race, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Asian American Poetry by Dorothy J. Wang 9780804795272
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $29.30When will American poetry and poetics stop viewing poetry by racialized persons as a secondary subject within the field? Dorothy J. Wang makes an impassioned case that now is the time. Thinking Its Presence calls for a radical rethinking of how American... -
A Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure Across the Pacific by Hua Hsu
RRP: $46.38Booksplease Price: $45.05Who gets to speak for China? During the interwar years, when American condescension toward "barbarous" China yielded to a fascination with all things Chinese, a circle of writers sparked an unprecedented public conversation about American-Chinese... -
Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics by Lisa Lowe
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $26.05In Immigrant Acts, Lisa Lowe argues that understanding Asian immigration to the United States is fundamental to understanding the racialized economic and political foundations of the nation. Lowe discusses the contradictions whereby Asians have been... -
The Writer as Migrant by Ha Jin
Booksplease Price: $15.84As a teenager during China's Cultural Revolution, Ha Jin served as an uneducated soldier in the People's Liberation Army. Thirty years later, a resident of the United States, he won the National Book Award for his novel "Waiting", completing a trajectory... -
Amy Tan by Bella Adams 9780719062070
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $29.77This is the most comprehensive study to date of Amy Tan's work. It offers close readings of her texts in the context of broader debates about the representation of identity, history and reality. In contrast with Tan's own American-born narrators, and... -
Understanding Turkish American Literature 9781647266318
RRP: $170.27Booksplease Price: $145.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647266318Format HardbackImprint Clanrye InternationalPublisher Clanrye International -
Aspects of Diaspora: Studies on North American Chinese Writers by Lucie Bernier 9783906766669
RRP: $54.05Booksplease Price: $44.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783906766669Author Lucie BernierFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Verlag Peter LangPublisher Verlag Peter LangWeight(grams) 210g -
The State of Race: Asian/American Fiction after World War II by Sze Wei Ang 9781438475004
RRP: $32.90Booksplease Price: $30.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438475004Author Sze Wei AngFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
The State of Race: Asian/American Fiction after World War II by Sze Wei Ang 9781438475011
RRP: $93.53Booksplease Price: $83.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438475011Author Sze Wei AngFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York Press