Bold Words: A Century of Asian American WritingRajini Srikanth, Esther Yae Iwanaga Rutgers University Press, 2001 - 442 Seiten A century of Asian American writing has generated a forceful cascade of "bold words." This anthology covers writings by Asian Americans in all genres, from the early twentieth century to the present. Some sixty authors of Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, South Asian, and Southeast Asian American origin are represented, with an equal split between male and female writers. The collection is divided into four sections-memoir, fiction, poetry, and drama-prefaced by an introductory essay from a well-known practitioner of that genre: Meena Alexander on memoir, Gary Pak on fiction, Eileen Tabios on poetry, and Roberta Uno on drama. The selections depict the complex realities and wide range of experiences of Asians in the United States. They illuminate the writers' creative responses to issues as diverse as resistance, aesthetics, biculturalism, sexuality, gender relations, racism, war, diaspora, and family. Rajini Srikanth teaches at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She is the coeditor of the award-winning anthology Contours of the Heart: South Asians Map North America and the collection A Part, Yet Apart: South Asians in Asian America. Esther Y. Iwanaga teaches Asian American literature and literature-based writing courses at Wellesley College and the University of Massachusetts, Boston. |
Inhalt
Acknowledgments xiii | |
Introduction | |
The Faintest Echo of Our Language 21 | |
From Ono Ono Girls Hula 52 | |
Contents | |
The Chocolatier 93 | |
Not Much Art 101 | |
News of the World 114 | |
Fredo Avila 226 | |
A Difference of Background 236 | |
Elvis of Manila 243 | |
From Monkey King 250 | |
From A Cab Called Reliable 257 | |
From The Necessary Hunger 264 | |
Western Music 272 | |
Chagrin 280 | |
The Dead 127 | |
LAN DUONG | |
The Story of a Letter 147 | |
From NoNo Boy 164 | |
Melpomene Tragedy 179 | |
The Valley of the Dead Air 195 | |
Our Lady of Kalihi 205 | |
Kim 213 | |
Seeds 219 | |
Show and Tell 291 | |
Mrs Sens 299 | |
The Shylocks 313 | |
JEANNIE BARROGA | |
From Three Lives 395 | |
Themes and Topics 419 | |
About the Editors 435 | |
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