Encyclopedia of Asian-American Literature

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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ASIAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE  ...

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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ASIAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE  Seiwoong Oh ...

Encyclopedia of Asian-American Literature Copyright © 2007 by Seiwoong Oh All rights reserved. No part of this book may be repro ...

TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction and Preface vi A to Z Entries 1 Appendixes Bibliography of Major Works by Asian-American Writers ...

vi  INTRODUCTION AND PREFACE The 337 entries in this volume introduce more than 200 North American authors of Asian descent an ...

Introduction and Preface vii American’ from ‘Asian,’ ” explains Elaine H. Kim, “was a way to conjure up and inscribe our faces o ...

politics and global exchange of goods and cul- tures. Despite the unease expressed by Wong and others, more and more critics beg ...

has less to do with some abstract land mass long ago defined as “Asia” (which includes more than half of the Arab world) and mor ...

The individual works by these and other writ- ers led to several literary anthologies, allowing a choice for students and teache ...

are urged to develop multicultural sensibilities. In the meantime, it seems important at this point to remain open-minded and no ...

Okamura, Jonathan Y. “Asian American Studies in the Age of Transnationalism: Diaspora, Race, Community.” Amerasia Journal 29, no ...

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3 Abbasi, Talat Born in Lucknow, India, Talat Abbasi spent her childhood in Karachi, Pakistan, and received her education in bot ...

4 Abbasi’s most recent stories in Bitter Gourd and Other Stories deal with Pakistani women liv- ing in New York. These stories s ...

5 Other stories in the collection explore the clash between Pakistan and America, depicting female characters who are usually fi ...

Adachi, Jiro (?– ) The novelist Jiro Adachi was raised in New York City by his Japanese father and Hungarian mother. His first l ...

emy of American Poets), Sin (1986, American Book Award), Fate (1991), Greed (1993), Vice (2000, Na- tional Book Award for Poetry ...