Asian American & Pacific Islander

Voices of Angel Island is a historical and literary anthology of the writings of immigrants detained at Angel Island, designed to provide a conduit for readers today to connect with early-20th-century perspectives on the process of "becoming...

How do English-speaking novelists and filmmakers tell stories of China from a Chinese perspective? How do they keep up appearances of pseudo-Sino immanence while ventriloquizing solely in the English language? Anglo writers and their readers join in this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647266318Format HardbackImprint Clanrye InternationalPublisher Clanrye International

Asian American Literature: An Encyclopedia for Students is an invaluable resource for high school and university students curious to know more about Asian North American writers, texts, and the issues and drives that motivate their writing. This volume...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814215098Author Seulghee LeeFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University Press

Examines 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...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814258811Author Audrey Wu ClarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 454g

The French epicure and gastronome Brillat-Savarin declared, ""Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are."" Wenying Xu infuses this notion with cultural-political energy by extending it to an ethnic group known for its...

Definitions of modernism have been debated throughout the twentieth century. But both during the height of the modernist era and since, little to no consideration has been given to the work of minority writers as part of this movement. Considering works...

Modern Minority presents a fresh examination of canonical and emergent Asian American literature's relationship to the genre of realism, particularly through its preoccupation with the everyday. Lee argues that it is through the elements of the everyday,...

Cold 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814256473Author Wen JinFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

In the United States, perhaps no minority group is considered as "model" or successful as the Asian American community. Rather than living in ominous "ghettoes," Asian Americans are described as residing in positive-sounding...

With the continued expansion of the literary canon, multicultural works of modern literary fiction and autobiography have assumed an increasing importance for students and scholars of American literature. This exciting new series assembles key documents...

Noted Asian Americanist Sau-ling C. Wong presents a thought-provoking overview of critical issues surrounding Kingston's contemporary classic, such as reception by various interpretive communities, canon formation, cultural authenticity, fictionality in...

What does it mean to belong? How are twenty-first-century diasporic subjects fashioning identities and communities that bind them together? Aspiring to Home examines these questions with a focus on immigrants from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh...

Asian American War Stories examines contemporary Asian American literature that considers both the short-term and the long-term effects of war, trauma, and displacement on civilians, as well as the ways that individuals seek healing in the face of...

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This study establishes connections between the themes and methodologies of writers within the South Asian diaspora in the New World, and serves both serious analysts as well as beginning readers of South Asian fiction. It is an impartial study that...

Author Toni Morrison emphasized the need to analyze race in American literature by white authors by shifting focus "from the racial object to the racial subject". Representations of whiteness in certain works by Asian American authors reveal what happens...

Twentieth-century America reduced Vietnam to "'Nam": the surreal site of a military nightmare. The early twenty-first century has seen the revision of this image to recognize the people and culture of Vietnam itself. Vietnamese Americans, both...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Minnesota Book Award (Anthology) 2003.Book InformationISBN 9780873514378Author Mai Neng MouaFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Minnesota Historical Society...

There is a tendency to think of Korean American literature-and Asian American literature writ large-as a field of study involving only two spaces, the United States and Korea, with the same being true in Asian studies of Korean Japanese (Zainichi)...

Inscrutable Belongings brings together formalist and contextual modes of critique to consider narrative strategies that emerge in queer Asian North American literature. Stephen Hong Sohn provides extended readings of fictions involving queer Asian North...

China Reinterpreted is the first comprehensive study on the representation of Chinese figures and motifs in Muromachi Japanese noh theater. Given that China had a strong influence on Japanese culture from the sixth to the early seventeenth centuries,...

Redraws the contours of Asian American art, attempting to free it from a categorization that stifles more than it reveals. Charting its historical conditions and the expansive contexts of its emergence, Susette Min challenges the notion of Asian...

2013 Winner of the Asian American Studies Association's prize in Literary Studies Anger and bitterness tend to pervade narratives written by second generation Asian American daughters, despite their largely unremarkable upbringings. In Ingratitude,...

2013 Winner of the Asian American Studies Association's prize in Literary Studies Anger and bitterness tend to pervade narratives written by second generation Asian American daughters, despite their largely unremarkable upbringings. In Ingratitude,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814215449Author Audrey Wu ClarkFormat HardbackPage Count 204Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University Press

In Double Agency, Tina Chen proposes impersonation as a paradigm for teasing out the performative dimensions of Asian American literature and culture. Asian American acts of impersonation, she argues, foreground the limits of subjectivity even as they...

Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America examines the idealisation of Asian America by its intellectuals, the saturation of Asian America with capitalist practices, and the challenges posed by Asian America's ideological diversity...

Writers 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...

Tricksters and Cosmopolitans is the first sustained exploration into the history of cross-cultural collaborations between Asian American writers and their non-Asian American editors and publishers. The volume focuses on the literary production of the...

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 multiculturalism - with its emphasis on authenticity and identifiable cultural difference - is...

LatinAsian Cartographies examines how Latina/o and Asian American writers provide important counter-narratives to the stories of racial encroachment that have come to characterize twenty-first century dominant discourses on race. Susan Thananopavarn...

LatinAsian Cartographies examines how Latina/o and Asian American writers provide important counter-narratives to the stories of racial encroachment that have come to characterize twenty-first century dominant discourses on race. Susan Thananopavarn...

What does it mean to belong? How are twenty-first-century diasporic subjects fashioning identities and communities that bind them together? Aspiring to Home examines these questions with a focus on immigrants from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh...

Asian American women have long dealt with charges of betrayal within and beyond their communities. Images of their "disloyalty" pervade American culture, from the daughter who is branded a traitor to family for adopting American ways, to the war bride...

The Peculiar Afterlife of Slavery explores how antiblack racism lived on through the figure of the Chinese worker in US literature after emancipation. Drawing out the connections between this liminal figure and the formal aesthetics of blackface...