num_pages: 374
description: Amy Ling brings together in one comprehensive volume poets, novelists, dramatists, musicians, songwriters, composers, filmmakers, choreographers, and performance artists who span three generations and represent the broad spectrum of ethnicities that make up Asian America. They share thoughts on their work, their audiences, and their relationship to the Asian American rubric and American life and culture. They provide a rare glimpse of the inspirations and aspirations out of which their energy and ideas grow and place their work, each differently, in the complex fabric of American life. An indispensible anthology of work and an inspiring and provocative cultural record, Yellow Light casts a revealing glow on the contradictions, influences, imagination, and humanity expressed through the vastly varied creative projects of Americans with Asian roots. This book will engage readers interested in Asian American literature, film, and culture and students and scholars of Asian American studies, American culture, and multicultural studies. What is Asian America?a place?a race?a frame of reference?a government-imposed expedient?a box to check on a form?It's a dream in the heartLike Bulosan's claim,a tug in the gut,a gleam of Asian ancestryAmerican struggle.—Amy Ling
language: English
title: Yellow Light: The Flowering of Asian American Arts
titlecomplete: Yellow Light: The Flowering of Asian American Arts (Asian American History & Culture)
ratings_count: 7
publisher: Temple Univ Pr