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Book SynopsisAn introduction to internationally successful writers such as Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan, Bharati Mukherjee, Gish Jen, Chang-Rae Lee and Amitav Ghosh, set in a range of literary-cultural contexts.
Table of ContentsSeries PrefaceAcknowledgementsChronologyIntroductionSome Thoughts on Ethnicity and WritingA History of Asian American LiteraturesAsian American Canon FormationAbout this BookChapter 1 American Ways of Looking, 1880s-1920sContexts and IntertextsYan Phou Lee, When I was a Boy in China (1887)Winnifred Eaton and Edith Eaton, Selected Short Stories (1900-15)ConclusionChapter 2 We are America, 1930s-50sContexts and IntertextsCarlos Bulosan, America is in the Heart (1946) and Toshio Mori, Selected Short Stories (1949)Monica Sone, Nisei Daughter (1953), John Okada, No-No Boy (1957) and Hisaye Yamamoto, Selected Short Stories (1949-51)ConclusionChapter 3 Noise, Trouble and Backtalk, 1960s-70sContexts and IntertextsJade Snow Wong, Fifth Chinese Daughter (1950) and Louis Chu, Eat a Bowl of Tea (1961)Frank Chin, The Chickencoop Chinaman (1972), The Year of the Dragon (1974) and The Chinaman Pacific and Frisco R.R. Co. (1988)Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior (1976) and China Men (1980)ConclusionChapter 4 Between Worlds, the 1980sContexts and IntertextsJoy Kogawa, Obasan (1981)Maxine Hong Kingston, Tripmaster Monkey (1989) and David Henry Hwang, FOB (1979) and M. Butterfly (1988)Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club (1989)Bharati Mukherjee, Jasmine (1989) and Wendy Law-Yone, The Coffin Tree (1983)ConclusionChapter 5 Heterogeneity, Hybridity and Multiplicity, the 1990sContexts and IntertextsRefugee LiteraturesLan Cao, Monkey Bridge (1997)Sky Lee, Disappearing Moon Cafe (1990)Mei Ng, Eating Chinese Food Naked (1998)Chang-rae Lee, Native Speaker (1995)ConclusionConclusionStudent ResourcesGlossarySelected Electronic ResourcesGuide to Further ReadingIndex
