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Books: Asian American Writers

Writing the Ghetto by Yoonmee Chang
Call Number: e-book
ISBN: 0813548012
Publication Date: 2010-12-01
Introduction : Writing the ghetto -- "Like a slum": ghettos and ethnic enclaves, ghetto and genre -- The Japanese American internment : master narratives and class critique -- Chinese suicide: political desire and queer exogamy -- Ethnic entrepreneurs: Korean American spies, shopkeepers, and the 1992 Los Angeles riots -- Indian Edison: the ethnoburbian paradox and corrective ethnography -- Conclusion : A fork in the road: the post-racial aesthetic and class visibility.
Contesting Genres in Contemporary Asian American Fiction by Betsy Huang
Call Number: e-book
ISBN: 9780230108318
Publication Date: 2010-11-15
"This book answers recent calls in criticism and theory to examine the influence of genre on contemporary Asian American literary production."--publisher. Table of contents: Generic sui generis : on Asian American immigrant fiction -- Recriminations : on Asian American crime fiction -- Reorientations : on Asian American science fiction.
Asian American Literature by Bella Adams; Martin Halliwell (Editor); Andy Mousley (Editor)
Call Number: e-book
ISBN: 0748622721
Publication Date: 2008-04-17
"This critical study of Asian American literature discusses work by internationally successful writers such as Maxine Hong Kingston, Chang-rae Lee, Bharati Mukherjee, Amy Tan and others in their historical, cultural and critical contexts."--Amazon
Eating Identities by Wenying Xu
Call Number: e-book
ISBN: 9780824831950
Publication Date: 2008-04-01
"Eating Identities is the first book to link food to a wide range of Asian American concerns such as race and sexuality...For students of literature, this tantalizing work offers an illuminating lesson on how to read the multivalent meanings of food and eating in literary texts."--Amazon
Begin Here: Reading Asian North American Autobiographies of Childhood by Rocío G. Davis
Call Number: e-book
ISBN: 9780824830922
Publication Date: 2007-04-01
"By examining the artistic project of some fifty Asian North American writers who deploy their childhood narratives in the representation of the individual processes of self-identification and negotiation of cultural and national affiliation, this work provides a comprehensive overview of Asian North American autobiographies of childhood published over the last century. Importantly, it also attends to new ways of writing autobiographies, employing comics, blending verse, prose, diaries, and life writing for children, and using relational approaches to self-identification, among others."--Amazon
East-West Montage by Sheng-mei Ma
Call Number: e-book
ISBN: 0824831810
Publication Date: 2007-12-01
"The range of material examined is broad and rich: the iconography of the opium den in film noir, the writings of Asian American novelists, the swordplay and kung fu film, Japanese anime, the "Korean Wave" (including soap operas like Winter Sonata and the cult thriller Oldboy), Rogers and Hammerstein's Orientalist musicals, the comic Blackhawk, the superstar status of the Dalai Lama, and the demise of Hmong refugees and Chinese retirees in the U.S."--Amazon
The Columbia Guide to Asian American Literature Since 1945 by Guiyou Huang
Call Number: e-book
ISBN: 9780231126205
Publication Date: 2006-06-20
"This guide covers Canadian and U.S. authors with cultural and ethnic origins in East Asia, South Asia, and the Pacific Islands. It begins with a discussion of works written shortly after World War II that explore the personal and political impact of the conflict, such as John Okada's No-No Boy and Hisaye Yamamoto's short fiction."--Amazon
Nation, Race and History in Asian American Literature by Maria C. Zamora
Call Number: e-book
ISBN: 9781433102684
Publication Date: 2008-08-01
"Through a comparative analysis of David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly, Lois-Ann Yamanaka's Blu's Hanging, and Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters, this study considers the ways in which bodies challenge the categories asserted in nation-building."--Google Books
America's Asia - Racial Form and American Literature, 1893-1945 by Colleen Lye
Call Number: e-book
ISBN: 0691114196
Publication Date: 2004-10-25
Good for research on stereotypes. Table of Contents: The minority which is not one -- A genealogy of the "yellow peril" / Jack London, George Kenna, and the Russo-Japanese war -- Meat versus rice / Frank Norris, Jack London, and the critique of monopoly capitalism -- The end of Asian exclusion? / the specter of "cheap farmers" and alien land law fiction -- A new deal for Asians / John Steinbeck, Carey McWilliams, and the liberalism of Japanese-American internment -- One world / Pearl S. Buck, Edgar Snow, and John Steinbeck on Asian American character.
Asian North American Identities by Eleanor Rose Ty (Editor); Donald C. Goellnicht (Editor, Editor); Eleanor Ty (Editor)
Call Number: e-book
ISBN: 0253216613
Publication Date: 2004-04-29
Includes an essay from LaGuardia's Prof. Karlyn Koh. "The nine essays in Asian North American Identities explore how Asian North Americans are no longer caught between worlds of the old and the new, the east and the west, and the south and the north."--publisher
Betrayal and Other Acts of Subversion by Leslie Bow
Call Number: e-book
ISBN: 0691070938
Publication Date: 2001-03-26
"Questions of ethnic belonging, sexuality, identification, and political allegiance are among the issues raised by such writers as Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Bharati Mukherjee, Jade Snow Wong, Amy Tan, Sky Lee, Le Ly Hayslip, Wendy Law-Yone, Fiona Cheong, and Nellie Wong. Beginning with the notion that feminist and Asian American identity are mutually exclusive, Bow analyzes how women serve as boundary markers between ethnic or national collectives in order to reveal the male-based nature of social cohesion."--Amazon
The Americas of Asian American Literature - Gendered Fictions of Nation and Transnation by Rachel C. Lee
Call Number: e-book
ISBN: 0691059616
Publication Date: 1999-10-04
"Through a critical analysis of select literary texts--novels by Carlos Bulosan, Gish Jen, Jessica Hagedorn, and Karen Yamashita--Lee probes the specific ways in which some Asian American authors have steered around ethnic themes with alternative tales circulating around gender and sexual identity."--Amazon
The Nuyorasian Anthology : Asian American writings about New York City by Bino A. Realuyo; Kendal Henry (Editor); Rahna Reiko Rizzuto (Editor)
Call Number: PS509 .N5 N54 1999
ISBN: 1889876070
Publication Date: 1999-05-13
"A collection of fiction, poetry, essays, and art, The NuyorAsian Anthology maps Asian American life in New York City, beginning with works by poet Jose Garcia Villa in the 1930s and the birth of the Asian-American literary and political movement in the 1970s. The collection also explores the more contemporary voices of Pico Iyer, Bharati Mukherjee, Jessica Hagedorn, Kimiko Hahn, Vijay Seshadri, Wang Ping, and many others."--Amazon
Asian American Literature: reviews and criticism of works by American writers of Asian descent by Lawrence J. Trudeau (Editor)
Call Number: Reference PS 153 .A84 A82 1999
ISBN: 0787602965
Publication Date: 1998-10-01
"Now, in one convenient source, students and researchers can quickly locate biographical sketches and obtain substantive excerpts from literature criticism on frequently studied Asian American writers."--Google Books

Background Research

Keywords/themes to explore: gender, sexuality, women, girls, infanticide, women's rights, feminism, masculinity, India, class, caste system, diaspora, immigration, family, globalization, history and politics of different cultures.

CQ Researcher
There are tons of excellent overviews and reports here on issues relating to social movements, immigrant groups and histories. Annotated bibliographies and links are provides so this is a good starting point and a way to familiarize yourself with a topic.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Online reference e-books that provide excellent brief overviews on issues (such as immigration law) and histories of different parts of the world, notable people, etc. Another good first place to start familiarizing yourself with the issues.
Opposing Viewpoints
Provides some great overviews on controversial issues (similar to CQ Researcher); lots of pro/con essays to help get a sense of these debates.
NEH Virtual Bookshelf - AAPI
Links to museum, archival, and historical projects and film series.
New York Times archive (1851-2009)
Full-text access to New York Times articles back the very beginning.

Asian American Studies: Find Articles: Kingston, Lahiri, Okada, Yang

Interpreter of Maladies

The Woman Warrior

No-No Boy

Books: Asian American Writers

Background Research

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