A Resource Guide to Asian American Literature
Title | A Resource Guide to Asian American Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Sau-ling Cynthia Wong |
Publisher | Modern Language Assn of Amer |
Pages | 345 |
Release | 2001-01-01 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780873522717 |
An informative and original collection of twenty-five essays, the Resource Guide to Asian American Literature offers background materials for the study of this expanding discipline and suggests strategies and ideas for teaching well-known Asian American works. The volume focuses 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 (e.g., its publication or production history), 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. The Resource Guide concludes with four essays that present themes and approaches for the study and teaching of short fiction, poetry, and panethnic anthologies. This volume provides a fresh look at what "Asian American literature" means and serves as an introduction to the study and teaching of this flourishing field. It is an essential collection for students, teachers, and scholars of all American literatures.
The Columbia Guide to Asian American Literature Since 1945
Title | The Columbia Guide to Asian American Literature Since 1945 PDF eBook |
Author | Guiyou Huang |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 2006-08-08 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780231501033 |
The Columbia Guide to Asian American Literature Since 1945
Asian American Literature
Title | Asian American Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Bella Adams |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 2008-04-17 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0748629831 |
This critical study of Asian American literature discusses work by internationally successful writers such as Maxine Hong Kingston, Chang-rae Lee, Bharati Mukherjee, Amy Tan and others 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. The main body of the book comprises five periodized chapters that highlight important events in a nation-state that has historically rendered Asian Americans invisible. 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.
The Cambridge Companion to Asian American Literature
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Asian American Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Crystal Parikh |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 271 |
Release | 2015-08-20 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1107095174 |
This Companion surveys Asian American literature from the nineteenth century to the present day.
Understanding Asian Americans
Title | Understanding Asian Americans PDF eBook |
Author | Marjorie H. Li |
Publisher | |
Pages | 230 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781555700478 |
Prairie Lotus
Title | Prairie Lotus PDF eBook |
Author | Linda Sue Park |
Publisher | Clarion Books |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 132878150X |
In this compelling, emotionally engaging novel set in 1880, a half-Chinese girl and her white father try to make a home in Dakota Territory, in the face of racism and resistance.
An Interethnic Companion to Asian American Literature
Title | An Interethnic Companion to Asian American Literature PDF eBook |
Author | King-Kok Cheung |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 436 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780521447904 |
A survey of Asian American literature.