Asian American Literature A Brief

A historical overview introduces a selection of works by Hisaye Yamamoto, Bharati Mukherjee, Jessica Hagedorn, Cathy Song, Marilyn Chin, Woo Ping Chin, Yelina Hasu Houston, and others.

Foreword

vii

(6)

Ishmael Reed

Preface

xiii

Introduction

1

(15)

AUTOBIOGRAPHY, MEMOIR, AND NONFICTION ESSAY

16

(50)

Frank Chin (b. 1940)

Rendezvous

16

(5)

The Old Woman and Her Dumpling

21

(2)

The Woman who Makes Swell Doughnuts

23

(3)

Maxine Hong Kingston (b. 1940)

The Making of More Americans

26

(14)

Amy Tan (b. 1952)

Mother Tongue

40

(5)

Traise Yamamoto (b. 1961)

Different Silences

45

(6)

Connie Ching So (b. 1964)

The Color Yellow: Working Class Asian American Women and Feminism

51

(15)

FICTION

66

(233)

Sui Sin Far (b. 1867-1914)

The Americanizing of Pau Tsu

66

(9)

Toshio Mori (b. 1910-1980)

1936

75

(6)

Bienvenido Santos (b. 1911)

Quicker with Arrows

81

(22)

Carlos Bulosan (b. 1913-1956)

The Romance of Magno Rubio

103

(16)

Hisaye Yamamoto (b. 1921)

Las Vegas Charley

119

(15)

Diana Chang (b. 1934)

Falling Free

134

(13)

Lonny Kaneko (b. 1939)

Nobody's Hero

147

(10)

Bharati Mukherjee (b. 1940)

The Management of Grief

157

(14)

Jeffery Paul Chan (b. 1942)

Sing Song Plain Song

171

(15)

Janice Mirikitani (b. 1942)

Spoils of War

186

(16)

Jessica Hagedorn (b. 1949)

The Blossoming of Bongbong

202

(14)

Darrell H.Y. Lum (b. 1950)

Primo Doesn't Take Back Bottles Anymore

216

(4)

O. Wini Terada (b. 7)

Intermediate School Hapai

220

(15)

R.A. Sasaki (b. 1952)

First Love

235

(11)

Sylvia Watanabe (b. 1952)

A Spell of Kona Weather

246

(6)

Fae Myenne Ng (b. 1956)

Backdaire

252

(9)

Carol Roh-Spaulding (b. 1962)

Waiting for Mr. Kim

261

(12)

T.C. Huo (b. ?)

Those Years

273

(7)

Robert Ji-Song Ku (b. 1964)

Leda

280

(8)

Monique Thuy-Dung Truong (b. 1968)

Kelly

288

(11)

POETRY

299

(104)

Lawson Fusao Inada (b. 1938)

Legends from Camp

299

(18)

Woon Ping Chin (b. 1945)

The Naturalization of Camellia Song

317

(3)

In My Mother's Dream

320

(2)

Seven Vietnamese Boys

322

(1)

Russell Leong (b. 1950)

The Country of Dreams and Dust

323

(32)

Vince Gotera (b. 1952)

Alan Valeriano Sees a Lynch Mob

355

(2)

Aswang

357

(1)

Dance of the Letters

358

(1)

Fighting Kite

359

(2)

Vietnam Era Vet

361

(2)

Marilyn Chin (b. 1955)

How I Got That Name

363

(3)

A Break in the Rain

366

(1)

Elegy for Chloe Nguyen

367

(2)

Kimiko Hahn (b. 1955)

Resistance: A Poem on Ikat Cloth

369

(11)

Cathy Song (b. 1955)

The Youngest Daughter

380

(2)

Easter: Wahiawa, 1959

382

(2)

Tribe

384

(3)

Myung Mi Kim (b. 1957)

Into Such Assembly

387

(2)

A Rose of Sharon

389

(2)

Li-Young Lee (b. 1957)

The Cleaving

391

(12)

DRAMA

403

(47)

Wakako Yamauchi (b. 1924)

The Music Lessons

403

(47)

Alternate Table of Contents by Theme

450

(3)

Selected Bibliography

453

(4)

Index of Author Names, Titles, and First Lines of Poems

457

(2)

Acknowledgments

459

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