Asian American literature - Adams, Bella (Edinburgh University Press, 2008)
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Chronology -- Introduction. Some thoughts on ethnicity and writing ; A history of Asian American literature ; Asian American canon formation ; About this book -- American ways of looking, 1880s-1920s. Yan Phou Lee, When I was a boy in China (1887) ; Winnifred Eaton and Edith Eaton, selected short stories (1900-15) -- We are America, 1930s-50s. Carlos Bulosan, America is in the heart (1946) and Toshio Mori, selected short stories (1949) ; Monica Sone, Nisei daughter (1953), John Okada, No-no boy (1957) and Hisaye Yamamoto, selected short stories (1949-51) -- Noise, trouble and backtalk, 1960s-70s. Jade Snow Wong, Fifth Chinese daughter (1950) and Louis Chu, Eat a bowl of tea (1961) ; Frank Chin, The chickencoop Chinaman (1972), The year of the dragon (1974) and The Chinaman Pacific and Frisco R.R. Co. (1988) ; Maxine Hong Kingston, The woman warrior (1976) and China men (1980) -- Between worlds, the 1980s. Joy Kogawa, Obasan (1981) ; Maxine Hong Kingston, Tripmaster monkey (1989) and David Henry Hwang, FOB (1979) and M. Butterfly (1988) ; Amy Tan, The joy luck club (1989) ; Bharati Mukherjee, Jasmine (1989) and Wendy Law-Yone, The coffin tree (1983) -- Heterogeneity, hybridity and multiplicity, the 1990s. Refugee literatures ; Lan Cao, Monkey bridge (1997) ; Sky Lee, Disappearing Moon Café (1990) ; Mei Ng, Eating Chinese good naked (1998) ; Chang-rae Lee, Native speaker (1995) -- Conclusion -- Student resources. Glossary ; Selected electronic resources ; Guide to further reading
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. The focus of this book is on contemporary writing, from the 1970s onwards, although it also traces over a hundred years of Asian American literary production in prose, poetry, drama and criticism. The main body of the book comprises five periodized chapters that highlight important events in a nation-state that has historically rendered Asian Americans invisib