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)
Yell-Oh Girls! Emerging Voices Explore Culture, Identity, and Growing Up Asian American by
In this groundbreaking collection of personal writings, young Asian American girls engage in a dynamic conversations about the unique challenges they face in their lives. Culled from hundreds of submissions, these revelatory essays, poems, and stories tackle such complex issues as dual identities, culture clashes, family matters, body image, and the need to find one's voice.
Call Number: E184.O6 Y45x 2001Publication Date: 2001 (New York : Quill)
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)
Troubling Border: an Anthology of Art and Literature by Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora by
Juxtaposing short stories, poetry, painting, and photographs, [this book] showcases the creative work of women of Vietnamese, Cambodian, Lao, Thai, and Filipino ancestry in the United States. Their provocative and accessible creations tell unique stories, provide sharp contrasts to familiar stereotypes--Southeast Asian women as exotic sex symbols, dragon ladies, prostitutes, or "bar girls"--and serve as entry points for broader discussions.
Call Number: PL3508.5 .T76 2014 +Publication Date: 2014 (Seattle, WA : University of Washington Press)
(Collections, continued)
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.
An Asian & Pacific Islander Prisoners' Anthology by
The first book to highlight the unique stories and perspectives of this growing prisoner population in the U.S. In total, 22 talented writers, poets, and artists have contributed to this anthology project, which was initiated and co-edited by Eddy Zheng, who has spent the last two decades in California State prisons and now awaits deportation orders in an immigration detention jail."
Call Number: PS508.P7 O84 2007 (in Olin Library)Publication Date: 2007 ( [California?] : Asian Prisoner Support Committee)
