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<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>A unique collection of essays explores the diversity of Asian American literature from the 19th century to the present<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9780877229353&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="853_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><!--none//--><h1>Reading the Literatures of Asian America</h1>
<h3>edited by Shirley Geok-lin Lim and Amy Ling</h3>
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<BR> 384 pp
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</P><p>With the recent proliferation of critically acclaimed literature by Asian American writers, this groundbreaking collection of essays provides a unique resource for students, scholars, and the general reading public. The homogeneity implied by the term "Asian American" is replaced in this volume with the rich diversity of highly disparate peoples. Languages, religions, races and cultural and national backgrounds. Examining a century of Asian American literature from the late 19th century up through the contemporary experimental drama of Ping Chong, the contributors address the work of writers with Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Filipino, East Indian, and Pacific Island ancestry. Asian Canadian and Hawaiian literature are also considered.
<BR> <h2>Excerpt</h2><P>Excerpt available at <a href="http://www.temple.edu/tempress">www.temple.edu/tempress</a></p>
<BR> <h2>Contents</h2><P>
<p>Acknowledgments
<br>Foreword – Elaine H. Kim
<br>Introduction – Shirley Geok-lin Lim and Amy Ling
<p><b>Part I: Ambivalent Identities</b>
<br>1. The Ambivalent American: Asian American Literature on the Cusp – Shirley Geok-lin Lim
<br>2. Versions of Identity in Post-Activist Asian American Poetry – George Uba
<br>3. Filipinos in the United States and Their Literature of Exile – Oscar V. Campomanes
<br>4. Beyond "Clay Walls": Korean American Literature – Chung-Hei Yun
<br>5. Witnessing the Japanese Canadian Experience in World War II: Processual Structure, Symbolism, and Irony in Joy Kogawa's <I>Obasan</I> – Cheng Lok Chua
<p><b>Part II: Race and Gender</b>
<br>6. Ethnicizing Gender: An Exploration of Sexuality as Sign in Chinese Immigrant Literature – Sau-ling Cynthia Wong
<br>7. Rebels and Heroines: Subversive Narratives in the Stories of Wakako Yamauchi and Hisaye Yamamoto – Stan Yogi
<br>8. Facing the Incurable: Patriarchy in <I>Eat a Bowl of Tea</I> – Ruth Y. Hsiao
<br>9. "Don't Tell": Imposed Silences in <I>The Color Purple</I> and <I>the Woman Warrior</I> – King-Kok Cheung
<br>10. Tang Ao in America: Male Subject Positions in <I>China Men</I> – Donald C. Goellnicht
<p><b>Part III: Borders and Boundaries</b>
<br>11. Sense of Place, History, and the Concept of the "Local" in Hawaii's Asian/Pacific American Literatures – Stephen H. Sumida
<br>12. Momotaro's Exile: John Okada's <I>No-No Boy</I> – Gayle K. Fujita Sato
<br>13. <I>Blue Dragon, White Tiger</I>: The Bicultural Stance of Vietnamese American Literature – Renny Christopher
<br>14. From Isolation to Integration: Vietnamese Americans in Tran Dieu Hang's Fiction – Qui-Phiet Tran
<br>15. South Asia Writes North America: Prose Fictions and Autobiographies from the Indian Diaspora – Craig Tapping
<p><b>Part IV: Representations and Self-Representations</b>
<br>16. Creating One's Self: The Eaton Sisters – Amy Ling
<br>17. The Production of Chinese American Tradition: Displacing American Orientalist Discourse – David Leiwei Li
<br>18. Clashing Constructs of Reality: Reading Maxine Hong Kingston's <I>Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book</I> as Indigenous Ethnography – Patricia Lin
<br>19. The Death of Asia on the American Field of Representation – James S. Moy
<br>20. Ping Chong's Terra In/Cognita: Monsters on Stage – Suzanne R. Westfall
<p>Notes on Contributors
</P><BR> <H2>About the Author(s)</H2>
<P><b>Shirley Geok-lin Lim</b> is Professor of Asian Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. She is also editor (with John Blair Gamber, Stephen Hong Sohn and Gina Valentino) of <a href="1810_reg.html" target="_top"><i>Transnational Asian American Literature</i></a> (Temple).</P>
<P><b>Amy Ling</b> is Associate Professor of English and Director of Asian American Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is also editor of <i><a href="1381_reg.html" target="_top">Yellow Light</a></i> (Temple).</P>
<P>Contributors: Oscar V. Campomanes, King-Kok Cheung, Renny Christopher, Cheng Lok Chua, Donald C. Goellnicht, Ruth Y. Hsiao, David Leiwei Li, Patricia Lin, James S. Moy, Gayle K. Fujita Sato, Stephen H. Sumida, Craig Tapping, Qui-Phiet Tran, George Uba, Suzanne R. Westfall, Sau-ling Cynthia Wong, Stan Yogi, Chung-Hei Yun, and the editors.</P>
<BR><H2>Subject Categories</H2>
<p><A HREF="/tempress/asian_amer.html" TARGET="_top">Asian American Studies</a>
<BR><A HREF="/tempress/literature.html" TARGET="_top">Literature and Drama</a>
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<BR><h2 class="inpageheading">In the series</H2>
<P><I><a href="http://www.temple.edu/tempress/asam_history.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Click for other books in this series!'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;" target="_top">Asian American History and Culture</a></i>, edited by K. Scott Wong, Linda Trinh V�, and Cathy Schlund-Vials.
</p><p>Founded by Sucheng Chan in 1991, the <I>Asian American History and Culture</I>, series has sponsored innovative scholarship that has redefined, expanded, and advanced the field of Asian American studies while strengthening its links to related areas of scholarly inquiry and engaged critique. Like the field from which it emerged, the series remains rooted in the social sciences and humanities, encompassing multiple regions, formations, communities, and identities. Extending the vision of founding editor Sucheng Chan and emeriti editor Michael Omi and David Palumbo-Liu, series editors K. Scott Wong, Linda Trinh V�, and Cathy Schlund-Vials continue to develop a foundational collection that embodies a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to Asian American studies.</p>
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