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Subtitle: a century of Asian American writing
By: edited by Rajini Srikanth and Esther Y. Iwanaga.
Contributors: Srikanth, Rajini.; Iwanaga, Esther Yae, 1945-
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 442
Subjects: American literature -- Asian American authors; Asian Americans -- Literary collections; American literature -- 20th century; Asian Americans -- Biography
Notes: Includes indexes.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: PART 1; title: Introduction; title: The Voice That Passes through Me, An Interview with Meena Alexander 3; title: ESTHER IWANAGA AND RAJINI SRIKANTH; title: How My Stories Were Written 10; title: CARLOS BULOSAN; title: The Grandfather of the Sierra Nevada Mountains 14; title: MAXINE HONG KINGSTON; title: The Faintest Echo of Our Language 21; title: CHANG-RAE LEE; title: From Among the White Moon Faces:; title: An Asian American Memoir of Homelands 29; title: SHIRLEY GEOK-LIN LIM; title: From My Own Country:; title: A Doctor's Story of a Town and Its People in the Age of AIDS 38; title: ABRAHAM VERGHESE; title: From Where the Body Meets Memory 46; title: DAVID MURA; title: From Ono Ono Girl's Hula 52; title: CAROLYN LEI-LANILAU; title: 59; title: LOUNG UNG; title: PART 2; title: Introduction; title: Absorbing and Being Absorbed by Poetry 69; title: EILEEN TABIOS; title: (Untitled) 77; title: FRANCES CHUNG; title: Filling the Gap 78; title: LAWSON FUSAO INADA; title: Thirty Years Under 80; title: MITSUYE YAMADA; title: Cincinnati 81; title: MITSUYE YAMADA; title: Smokey's Getting Old 83; title: JESSICA HAGEDORN; title: Recipe 85; title: JANICE MIRIKITANI; title: Why Is Preparing Fish a Political Act? 86; title: JANICE MIRIKITANI; title: Yellow Light 87; title: GARRETT HONGO; title: The Gift 89; title: LI-YOUNG LEE; title: Urban Love Songs 90; title: WING TEK LUM; title: The Chocolatier 93; title: TINA KOYAMA; title: Strawberries 94; title: ERIC CHOCK; title: This Room and Everything in It 96; title: LI-YOUNG LEE; title: From "In Search of Evanescence" 98; title: AGHA SHAHID ALI; title: Not Much Art; title: INDRAN AMIRTHANAYAGAM; title: Ceylon; title: INDRAN AMIRTHANAYAGAM; title: The Floral Apron; title: MARILYN CHIN; title: Kala Gave Me Anykine Advice Especially about Filipinos When I Moved; title: to Pahala; title: LOIS-ANN YAMANAKA; title: A Conservative View; title: CATHY SONG; title: The Founding of Yuba City 110; title: CHITRA DIVAKARUNI; title: Prints; title: CHRISTIAN LANGWORTHY; title: Reading the Poem about the Yew Tree; title: REETIKA VAZIRANI; title: News of the World; title: MEENA ALEXANDER; title: The Young of Tiananmen; title: MEENA ALEXANDER; title: They Don't Think Much about Us in America; title: ALFRREDO NAVARRO SALANGA; title: Walls; title: LUIS H. FRANCIA; title: Beetle on a String; title: VINCE GOTERA; title: Ch'onmun Hak; title: WALTER K. LEW; title: Zenith; title: BARBARA TRAN; title: The Bitterness of Bodies We Bear; title: BAO-LONG CHU; title: The Dead; title: Sister Play; title: LAN DUONG; title: From The Redshifting Web; title: ARTHUR SZE; title: Projections 130; title: CHRISTIAN LANGWORTHY; title: PART 3; title: FI CTw -N; title: Introduction; title: In That Valley Beautiful Beyond; title: GARY PAK; title: In the Land of the Free; title: SUI SIN FAR; title: The Story of a Letter; title: CARLOS BULOSAN; title: He Who Has the Laughing Face; title: TOSHIO MORI; title: Seventeen Syllables; title: HISAYE YAMAMOTO; title: From No-No Boy; title: JOHN OKADA; title: From Clay Walls; title: KIM RONYOUNG; title: Melpomene Tragedy; title: THERESA HAK KYUNG CHA; title: Railroad Standard Time; title: FRANK CHIN; title: Batista and Tania Aparecida Djapan; title: KAREN TEI YAMASHITA; title: The Valley of the Dead Air; title: GARY PAK; title: Our Lady of Kalihi; title: R. ZAMORA LINMARK; title: A New Beginning; title: JOHN YAU; title: Kim; title: JANA MONJI; title: Seeds; title: MONIQUE T. D. TRUONG; title: Fredo Avila; title: GINA APOSTOL; title: A Difference of Background; title: NURUL KABIR; title: Elvis of Manila; title: ERIC GAMALINDA; title: From Monkey King; title: PATRICIA CHAO; title: From A Cab Called Reliable; title: PATTI KIM; title: The Goddess of Sleep; title: GINU KAMANI; title: From The Necessary Hunger; title: NINA REVOYR; title: Western Music; title: LINH DINH; title: Chagrin; title: TAHIRA NAQVI; title: From The Foreign Student; title: SUSAN CHOI; title: PART 4; title: Introduction; title: Asian American Theater Awake at the Millennium; title: ROBERTA UNO; title: From Eye of the Coconut; title: JEANNIE BARROGA; title: From Assimilation; title: SHISHIR KURUP; title: Mask Dance; title: RICK SHIOMI; title: From Mua He Do Lual Red Fiery Summer; title: Lt THI DIEM THOY; title: From Three Lives; title: ALEX LUU; title: From Texas; title: JUDY SOO HOO; title: Appendix 1: Themes and Topics; title: Appendix 2: Ethnicity of Authors; title: Glossary; title: About the Contributors; title: About the Editors; title: Copyrights and Permissions; title: Index of Authors and Titles.