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Bold words : a century of Asian American writing / edited by Rajini Srikanth and Esther Y. Iwanaga.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--Asian American authors.
- American literature.
- Asian Americans--Literary collections.
- Asian Americans.
- American literature--20th century.
- Asian Americans--Biography.
- Place of Publication:
- Rutgers University Press
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: PART 1
- Introduction
- The Voice That Passes through Me, An Interview with Meena Alexander 3
- ESTHER IWANAGA AND RAJINI SRIKANTH
- How My Stories Were Written 10
- CARLOS BULOSAN
- The Grandfather of the Sierra Nevada Mountains 14
- MAXINE HONG KINGSTON
- The Faintest Echo of Our Language 21
- CHANG-RAE LEE
- From Among the White Moon Faces:
- An Asian American Memoir of Homelands 29
- SHIRLEY GEOK-LIN LIM
- From My Own Country:
- A Doctor's Story of a Town and Its People in the Age of AIDS 38
- ABRAHAM VERGHESE
- From Where the Body Meets Memory 46
- DAVID MURA
- From Ono Ono Girl's Hula 52
- CAROLYN LEI-LANILAU
- 59
- LOUNG UNG
- PART 2
- Absorbing and Being Absorbed by Poetry 69
- EILEEN TABIOS
- (Untitled) 77
- FRANCES CHUNG
- Filling the Gap 78
- LAWSON FUSAO INADA
- Thirty Years Under 80
- MITSUYE YAMADA
- Cincinnati 81
- Smokey's Getting Old 83
- JESSICA HAGEDORN
- Recipe 85
- JANICE MIRIKITANI
- Why Is Preparing Fish a Political Act? 86
- Yellow Light 87
- GARRETT HONGO
- The Gift 89
- LI-YOUNG LEE
- Urban Love Songs 90
- WING TEK LUM
- The Chocolatier 93
- TINA KOYAMA
- Strawberries 94
- ERIC CHOCK
- This Room and Everything in It 96
- From "In Search of Evanescence" 98
- AGHA SHAHID ALI
- Not Much Art
- INDRAN AMIRTHANAYAGAM
- Ceylon
- The Floral Apron
- MARILYN CHIN
- Kala Gave Me Anykine Advice Especially about Filipinos When I Moved
- to Pahala
- LOIS-ANN YAMANAKA
- A Conservative View
- CATHY SONG
- The Founding of Yuba City 110
- CHITRA DIVAKARUNI
- Prints
- CHRISTIAN LANGWORTHY
- Reading the Poem about the Yew Tree
- REETIKA VAZIRANI
- News of the World
- MEENA ALEXANDER
- The Young of Tiananmen
- They Don't Think Much about Us in America
- ALFRREDO NAVARRO SALANGA
- Walls
- LUIS H. FRANCIA
- Beetle on a String
- VINCE GOTERA
- Ch'onmun Hak
- WALTER K. LEW
- Zenith
- BARBARA TRAN
- The Bitterness of Bodies We Bear
- BAO-LONG CHU
- The Dead
- Sister Play
- LAN DUONG
- From The Redshifting Web
- ARTHUR SZE
- Projections 130
- PART 3
- FI CTw -N
- In That Valley Beautiful Beyond
- GARY PAK
- In the Land of the Free
- SUI SIN FAR
- The Story of a Letter
- He Who Has the Laughing Face
- TOSHIO MORI
- Seventeen Syllables
- HISAYE YAMAMOTO
- From No-No Boy
- JOHN OKADA
- From Clay Walls
- KIM RONYOUNG
- Melpomene Tragedy
- THERESA HAK KYUNG CHA
- Railroad Standard Time
- FRANK CHIN
- Batista and Tania Aparecida Djapan
- KAREN TEI YAMASHITA
- The Valley of the Dead Air
- Our Lady of Kalihi
- R. ZAMORA LINMARK
- A New Beginning
- JOHN YAU
- Kim
- JANA MONJI
- Seeds
- MONIQUE T. D. TRUONG
- Fredo Avila
- GINA APOSTOL
- A Difference of Background
- NURUL KABIR
- Elvis of Manila
- ERIC GAMALINDA
- From Monkey King
- PATRICIA CHAO
- From A Cab Called Reliable
- PATTI KIM
- The Goddess of Sleep
- GINU KAMANI
- From The Necessary Hunger
- NINA REVOYR
- Western Music
- LINH DINH
- Chagrin
- TAHIRA NAQVI
- From The Foreign Student
- SUSAN CHOI
- PART 4
- Asian American Theater Awake at the Millennium
- ROBERTA UNO
- From Eye of the Coconut
- JEANNIE BARROGA
- From Assimilation
- SHISHIR KURUP
- Mask Dance
- RICK SHIOMI
- From Mua He Do Lual Red Fiery Summer
- Lt THI DIEM THOY
- From Three Lives
- ALEX LUU
- From Texas
- JUDY SOO HOO
- Appendix 1: Themes and Topics
- Appendix 2: Ethnicity of Authors
- Glossary
- About the Contributors
- About the Editors
- Copyrights and Permissions
- Index of Authors and Titles.
- ISBN:
- 0-8135-2965-4
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