Collections of Writings
See the PS call number section on the Kroch Library Mezzanine (the balcony overlooking level 1 of the Asia stacks), and on the 7th floor of Olin Library.
- Asian American Writers' WorkshopInterviews, essays, short fiction, upcoming events; special topics such as Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities, Transpacific Literary Project.
Aiiieeeee! Asian American Writers by
Showcases fourteen uncompromising works from authors such as Carlos Bulosan and John Okada. Forty-five years later the radical collection continues to spark controversy. This 3rd edition has a foreword by Tara Fickle and an Introduction to Chinese and Japanese American Literature, and one on Filipino American Literature.
Call Number: PS508.A8 A4 2019Publication Date: 2019 (Seattle : University of Washington Press)
Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation by
Highlights the work of 28 first-generation Asian-American poets.
Call Number: PS591.A76 A83 2004Publication Date: 2004 ( Urbana : University of Illinois Press)
Yellow Journalist: Dispatches from Asian America by
(Online also; click on title). Journalist William Wong's stories, columns, essays and commentaries tackle such persistent problems as media racism, criminality, inter-ethnic tensions and political marginalization suffered by the Asian-American community.
Call Number: E184.O6 W66 2001Publication Date: 2001 ( Philadelphia : Temple University Press)
Into the Fire: Asian American Prose by
Stories, sometimes based on personal experiences, by 32 writers. Each story is accompanied by photo of the author and a brief bio, often with comments by the author.
Call Number: PS647.A75 .I58 1996Publication Date: 1996 ( Greenfield Center, N.Y. : Greenfoeld Review Press ; New York, N.Y. : Distributed by the Talman Co)
Growing up Asian American in Young Adult Fiction by
The contributors to [this book] focus on moving beyond stereotypes to examine how Asian American children and adolescents define their unique identities. Chapters focus on young adult novels from many ethnicities. Chapters cover such topics as internalized racism and self-loathing; hyper-sexualization of Asian American females in graphic novels; interracial friendships; transnational adoptions and birth searches; food as a means of assimilation and resistance; commodity racism and the tourist gaze; the hostile and alienating environment generated by the War on Terror; and many other topics.
Call Number: PS374.Y57 G76 2018Publication Date: 2018 (Jackson : University Press of Mississippi)
Asian American Literature and the Environment by
This book is a ground-breaking transnational study of representations of the environment in Asian American literature. This collection demonstrates the distinctiveness of Asian American writers' positions on topics of major concern today: environmental justice, identity and the land, war environments, consumption, urban environments, and the environment and creativity. Represented authors include Amy Tan, Maxine Hong Kingston, Ruth Ozeki, Ha Jin, Fae Myenne Ng, Le Ly Hayslip, Lan Cao, Mitsuye Yamada, Lawson Fusao Inada, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Milton Murayama, Don Lee, and Hisaye Yamamoto. These writers provide a range of perspectives on the historical, social, psychological, economic, philosophical, and aesthetic responses of Asian Americans to the environment conceived in relation to labor, racism, immigration, domesticity, global capitalism, relocation, pollution, violence, and religion.
Call Number: PS153.A84 A74 2014 (in Olin Library)Publication Date: 2015 (New York : Routledge)
Information Sources -- Print Books
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Asian American Literature by
Articles on 272 writers and topics important in Asian-American literature 1890's-2007, arranged in A-Z format. Entries include cross-references to other articles and list of further readings. Comprehensive table of contents in vol.1 is also organized by subjects. Bibliography of print & electronic resources.
Call Number: PS153.A84 G72 2009 (REF; in Asia reading room)Publication Date: 2008 ( Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press)
Asian American Short Story Writers: An A-Z Guide by
Essays on 49 short fiction writers [some also listed in Asian American Novelits], with biography, major works and themes, critical reception, and bibliography of works by and about the writer.
Call Number: PS153.A84 A828 2003 + (REF; inn Asia reading room)Publication Date: 2003 ( Westport, CT : Greenwood Press)
Asian American Poets: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook by
Essays on 48 poets including biography, major works and themes, critical reception, and bibliography of works by and about the poet.
Call Number: PS153.A84 A826 2002 (REF; in Asia reading room)Publication Date: 2002 ( Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press)
Asian American Literature: Reviews and Criticism of Works by American Writers of Asian Descent by
Provides biographical info and substantive excerpts from literary criticism on Asian American writers, mostly contemporary [as of 1999] but some of historical importance. Introductory essays on developments and trends; photographs; title, author, genre and nationality indexes.
Call Number: PS153.A84 A82x 1999 + (REF; in Asia reading room)Publication Date: 1998 ( Detroit : Gale)
Asian American Autobiographers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook by
Included are alphabetically arranged entries on 60 major autobiographers of Asian descent. Some of these, such as Meena Alexander and Maxine Hong Kingston, are known primarily for their writings; others, such as Daniel K. Inouye, are known largely for other achievements, which they have chronicled in their autobiographies. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and provides a reliable account of the autobiographer's life; reviews major autobiographical works and themes, including fictionalized autobiographies and autobiographical novels; presents a meticulously researched account of the critical reception of these works; and closes with a bibliography of primary and secondary sources. An introductory essay considers the history and development of autobiography in American literature and culture and discusses issues and themes vital to Asian American autobiographies.
Call Number: PS366.A74 A85x 2001 (REF; in Asia reading room)Publication Date: 2001 ( Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press)
Asian American Writers by Call Number: PS129 .D55 v.312 + (Uris Library Reference)Publication Date: 2005 ( Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale)Part of the Dictionary of Literary Biography series of books.
Resource Guide to Asian American Literature by
Twenty-five background essays focusing on fifteen novels and book-length prose narratives (among them Meena Alexander's Nampally Road, Louis Chu's Eat a Bowl of Tea, Monica Sone's Nisei Daughter, Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club) and six works of drama (including David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly). Each essay contains information about the work, its popular and critical reception, a biographical sketch of the author, the historical context, major themes, critical issues, pedagogical topics, a list of comparative works, an assessment of resources, and a bibliography.
Call Number: PS153.A84 R47x 2001Publication Date: 2001 (New York : Modern Language Association of America)
The Asian Pacific American Heritage: A Companion to Literature and Arts by
"Fundamentals" section includes issues in reading Asian characters; Asian naming systems, "model minority" discourse. Book contains c.55 non-fiction entries by many writers on topics of The Family and the Self; Roots, Traditions, and Asian Pacific Life: the Old Country and its Cultural Legacy; Asian Pacific Culture: Diaspora; Literature; The Arts. Appendices for Chronology & Statistics; Cultural Lexicon.
Call Number: PS153.A84 A87x 1999Publication Date: 1999 ( New York : Garland Pub)
Writers of the Indian Diaspora: a Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook by
The fifty-eight writers included in this book book have roots in India--or in Pakistan, Bangladesh, or Sri Lanka--but represent diverse geographical areas of the Indian Diaspora. Each entry contains biographical information,an interpretive summary of the major works, provides an overview of the critical reception, and detailed primary and secondary bibliographies. Includes for example Anita Desai, Amitav Ghosh, Bharati Mukherjee, Santha Rama Rau, Salman Rushdie, Vikram Seth, V.S. Naipul,
Call Number: PR9485.45.N42 W92 1993 (REF; in Asia reading room)Publication Date: 1993 (Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press)
The Asian American Avant-Garde: Universalist Aspirations in Modernist Literature and Art by
Audrey Wu Clark traces a genealogy of counter-universalism in short fiction, poetry, novels, and art produced by writers and artists of Asian descent who were responding to their contemporary period of Asian exclusion in the United States, between the years 1882 and 1945.Believing in the promise of an inclusive America, these avant-gardists critiqued racism as well as institutionalized art. [The book] explores the ways in which these artists and writers responded to their racialization and the Orientalism that took place in modernist writing.
Call Number: PS153.A84 C56 2015 (in Olin Library)Publication Date: 2015 (Philadelphia : Temple University Press)
The State of Race: Asian/American Fiction after World War II by
In The State of Race, Sze Wei Ang argues that globalization has led to new ways of using racial stereotypes as shorthand for complex social relations in disparate national contexts. .... Focusing on a series of Asian American and Malaysian texts, Ang tracks the significance of two figures in particular--the model minority and the communist spy. Appearing in novels, politics, and popular culture, these tropes anchor powerful narratives about race, global capital, and state sovereignty
Call Number: PN56.R16 A54 2019Publication Date: 2019 (Albany : State University of New York Press)
Transnationalism and the Asian American Heroine: Essays on Literature, Film, Myth, and Media by
This collection examines transnational Asian American women characters in various fictional narratives. It analyzes how certain heroines who are culturally rooted in Asian regions have been transformed and re-imagined in America, playing significant roles in Asian American literary studies as well as community life. The interdisciplinary essays display refreshing perspectives in Asian American literary studies and transnational feminism from four continents.
Call Number: PS153.A84 T75 2010Publication Date: 2010 (Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co)- Asian American Literature and the Environment by
This book is a study of representations of the environment in Asian American literature. Authors included are Amy Tan, Maxine Hong Kingston, Ruth Ozeki, Ha Jin, Fae Myenne Ng, Le Ly Hayslip, Lan Cao, Mitsuye Yamada, Lawson Fusao Inada, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Milton Murayama, Don Lee, and Hisaye Yamamoto.
Call Number: PS153.A84 A74 2014 (in Olin Library)Publication Date: 2014 (New York : Routledge)
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Tilting the Continent: Southeast Asian American Writing by
[This book] is the first collection to bring to the American literary awareness the poetry, short stories, and personal essays of established, as well as new authors of Southeast Asian descent -- not only recent arrivals, but also second, third, and fourth-generation authors.
Call Number: PS508.A8 T55x 2000Publication Date: 2000 (Minneapolis, MN : New Rivers Press)
Surfacing Sadness: A Centennial of Korean-American Literature by
Surfacing Sadness is an anthology of poems, essays and short stories by thirty-seven Korean-American writers.
Call Number: PS508.K67 S87x 2003ISBN: 1931907099Publication Date: 2003 ( Dumont, N.J. : Homa & Sekey Books)
Catamaran: South Asian American WritingCall Number: PS508.S67 C38Publication Date: Library has v.1-10 (2003-2009)Journal of stories and poetry by South Asian American writers.
Seven Card Stud with Seven Manangs Wild: An Anthology of Filipino-American Writings by
Stories of 25 Filipinos whose families were immigrants to California's Bay Area.
Call Number: PS508.F53 S48 2002Publication Date: 2002 ( San Francisco, Calif. : East Bay Filipino American National Historical Society : T'Boli Pub., )
My Viet: Vietnamese American Literature in English, 1962-present by
The narratives in Part 1, Tales of Witness, treat the major events of the Vietnamese diaspora: Vietnam's resistance to French colonization, the "Vietnam War," post-war Vietnamese life, immigration to and life in America, and reconnections with contemporary Vietnam. Part 2, Tales of Imagination, moves beyond the master narratives of war and immigration to survey exciting innovations in the work of Vietnamese American writers. The texts... are among the best contemporary writings of any category.
Call Number: PS508.V54 M9 2011 (Online also; click on title)Publication Date: 2011 (Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press)
The World I Leave You: Asian American Poets on Faith and spirit by
The first anthology of its kind, [this book] spotlights poets of the Asian diaspora with connections to East, West, South, and Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands who represent a variety of cultures and religious traditions. This vibrant collection includes many of this generation's most acclaimed writers and exciting new voices .... Includes brief bios of the c.60 poets.
Call Number: PS591.A76 W67 2020Publication Date: 2020 (Asheville, NC : Orison Books)
Yellow : Stories by Call Number: PS3562.E339 Y45x 2001Publication Date: 2001 (New York : Norton)A collection of stories by Korean-American writer Don Lee, set in the fictional town of Rosarita Bay, California, examines what it means to be Asian in America.
Information Sources -- E-Books
Asian American Literature by
Discusses work by internationally successful writers in their historical, cultural and critical contexts. The focus of the 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. Of particular importance to the writers selected for case studies are questions of racial identity, cultural history and literary value with respect to dominant American ideologies.
Publication Date: 2008 (Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press)
Asian American Novelists:A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook by
(print & online).Alphabetically arranged entries for 70 Asian American novelists. Each entry provides a short biography, a discussion of major works and themes, a summary of the novelist's critical reception, and separate bibliographies of primary and secondary sources.
Call Number: PS153.A84 A825x 2000 (REF; in Asia reading room. Also online: click on title)Publication Date: 2000 (Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press)- Cambridge Companion to Asian American Literature by this Companion works from the assumption that Asian American literature’s formal and generic complexities can best be understood as a refraction of the historical currents that have shaped the Asian presence in America and the American presence in Asia. We identify several historical thematics – including immigration, empire, war, globalization, and law. Discusses traditional genres as well as, for example, immigrant narratives, internment memoirs ,or diasporic narratives of return,. Also deals with concepts and changes in the development of identity.Publication Date: 2015 ( New York, NY : Cambridge University Press)
The Cambridge History of Asian American Literature by
[This book] presents a comprehensive history of the field, from its origins in the nineteenth century to the present day. It offers an examination of all facets of Asian American writing: subjects from autobiography and Japanese American internment literature to contemporary drama and social protest performance,. This History traces the development of a literary tradition (while) presenting new critical approaches to Asian American literature.
Publication Date: 2016 ( New York, NY : Cambridge University Press)
Encyclopedia of Asian-American Literature by
More than 200 authors are included in the 337 entries in this book. Two major developments in the field— the blurring of boundaries between Asia and Asian America and the increasing participation of Southeast and South Asian immigrants— resulted in cross-pollination between the fields of Asian-American studies and postcolonial studies. Canonical authors and their major works are treated at length; new authors and minor works are introduced briefly.
Publication Date: 2007 ( New York : Facts On File)
Historical Dictionary of Asian American Literature and Theater by
This book contains a chronology, from 1887 to the present, an overview introduction, including sections on East Asian-, Southeast-Asian- and South Asian-Americans; and over 600 A to Z substantial and cross-referenced entries on authors, books, and genres as well as more general ones describing the historical background, cultural features, techniques and major theatres and clubs. Extensive bibliography with general works and those on specific authors.
Publication Date: 2012 (Lanham : Scarecrow Press, Inc)
The Routledge Companion to Asian American and Pacific Islander Literature by
(print & online) ..Offers an introduction as well as a range of critical approaches to this field. Divided into three sections, the volume discusses themes and methodologies distinctive to Asian American Literature. Addresses historical periods, geographies, literary identities; genres and forms.
Call Number: PS153.A84 R68 2014 + (in Olin Library)Publication Date: 2014 ( London ; New York : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group)
The Columbia Guide to Asian American Literature Since 1945 by
(print & online) Guiyou 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 historical developments and social movements; explains key literary terms; and offers a narrative, A-to-Z guide of major Asian American writers and their works, plus their critical reception.
Call Number: PS153.A84 H8 2006 (in Olin Ref)Publication Date: 2006 ( New York : Columbia University Press)
Eating Identities: Reading Food in Asian American Literature by
Food...distinguishes us from others, who practice different foodways. Xu reveals how cooking, eating, and food fashion Asian American identities in terms of race/ethnicity, gender, class, diaspora, and sexuality. She provides lucid and informed interpretations of seven Asian American writers (John Okada, Joy Kogawa, Frank Chin, Li-Young Lee, David Wong Louie, Mei Ng, and Monique Truong) and places these identity issues in the fascinating spaces of food, hunger, consumption, appetite, desire, and orality. Asian American literature abounds in culinary metaphors and references....
Call Number: PS153.A84 X8 2008Publication Date: 2008 (Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press)
Drawing New Color Lines: Transnational Asian American Graphic Narratives by
[This book] examines how Japanese manga and Asian popular culture have influenced Asian American comics; how these comics and Asian American graphic narratives depict the "look" of race; and how these various representations are interpreted in nations not of their production. Three sections covering Comics, Caricatures, and Race in North America; North American Representations of Race across the Pacific; Manga Goes West and Returns. Each chapter in the sections has an extensive bibliography.
Publication Date: 2014 (Hong Kong University Press)
