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First and Third Worlds in U.S. Literature: Rethinking Carlos Bulosan, in MELUS » Read Now
by Tim Libretti. 32 pgs.

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...in U.S. Literature: Rethinking Carlos Bulosan by Tim Libretti...Struggle Much of the criticism on Carlos Bulosan investigates the dynamics of Third...imagination as praxis"...
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Asian-American Writers ("Carlos Bulosan: A Filipino American Community Portrait" begins on p. 109) » Read Now
by Harold Bloom. 234 pgs.

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-- Brings together the best criticism on the most widely read poets, novelists, and playwrights
-- Presents complex critical portraits of the most influential writers in the English-speaking world -- from the English medievalists to contemporary writers
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The Americas of Asian American Literature: Gendered Fictions of Nation and Transnation (Chap. One "Fraternal Devotions: Carlos Bulosan and the Sexual Politics of America") » Read Now
by Rachel C. Lee. 205 pgs.

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""The Americas of Asian American Literature" is a critique of ideology and an interrogation of political power arrangements as they shift in different historical contexts. Rachel Lee looks at the ideological implications of various ways of reading literature that foreground some issues and suppress...
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""The Americas of Asian American Literature" is a critique of ideology and an interrogation of political power arrangements as they shift in different historical contexts. Rachel Lee looks at the ideological implications of various ways of reading literature that foreground some issues and suppress others. With its richly nuanced readings of how various kinds of racialized gendering shape both writing and reading across space and time, Rachel Lee's breakthrough book enriches both Asian American cultural critique and feminist inquiry, suggesting to us how much can be gained if we more clearly understand the inseparability of representations of race, gender, class, and sexuality."--Elaine H. Kim, University of California, author of "Asian American Literature"
"Rachel Lee has opened an important new chapter in the study of Asian American literature. Her trans-Pacific and trans-hemispheric conception of the 'Americas' of Asian American culture, combined with her scrupulous theorizing of gender, provides a fresh, original approach to the field. In doing so, she also maps out the criticism of the future and boldly enlarges the meaning of American literature."--Eric Sundquist, Northwestern University
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'The Laughter of My Father': A Survival Kit, in MELUS » Read Now
by L.M. Grow. 12 pgs.

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...origin, much as been written about Carlos Bulosan, in general, and The Laughter...laughter of our fathers is from Carlos Bulosan, are still being written by such...The...
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Teaching American Ethnic Literatures: Nineteen Essays ("Searching for the Heart of 'America' (Carlos Bulosan)" begins on p. 259) » Read Now
by John R. Maitino, David R. Peck. 350 pgs.

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...for the Heart of America" Carlos Bulosan 259 Shirley...studied here-- Black Elk Speaks , Carlos Bulosans America Is in the Heart...covered in our book, including Carlos...
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Assimilating Asians: Gendered Strategies of Authorship in Asian America (Chap. 1 "America in the Heart: Political Desire in Younghill Kang, Carlos Bulosan, Milton Murayama, and John Okada") » Read Now
by Patricia P. Chu. 244 pgs.

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One of the central tasks of Asian American literature, argues Patricia P. Chu, has been to construct Asian American identities in the face of existing, and often contradictory, ideas about what it means to be an American. Chu examines the model of the Anglo-American bildungsroman and shows how Asian...
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One of the central tasks of Asian American literature, argues Patricia P. Chu, has been to construct Asian American identities in the face of existing, and often contradictory, ideas about what it means to be an American. Chu examines the model of the Anglo-American bildungsroman and shows how Asian American writers have adapted it to express their troubled and unstable position in the United States. By aligning themselves with U.S. democratic ideals while also questioning the historical realities of exclusion, internment, and discrimination, Asian American authors, contends Chu, do two kinds of ideological work: they claim Americanness for Asian Americans, and they create accounts of Asian ethnicity that deploy their specific cultures and histories to challenge established notions of Americanness.
Chu further demonstrates that Asian American male and female writers engage different strategies in the struggle to adapt, reflecting their particular, gender-based relationships to immigration, work, and cultural representation. While offering fresh perspectives on the well-known writings -- both fiction and memoir -- of Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan, Bharati Mukherjee, Frank Chin, and David Mura, Assimilating Asians also provides new insight into the work of less recognized but nevertheless important writers like Carlos Bulosan, Edith Eaton, Younghill Kang, Milton Murayama, and John Okada. As she explores this expansive range of texts -- published over the course of the last century by authors of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, and Indian origin or descent -- Chu is able to illuminate her argument by linking it to key historical and cultural events.
Assimilating Asians makes animportant contribution to the fields of Asian American, American, and women's studies. Scholars of Asian American literature and culture, as well as of ethnicity and assimilation, will find particular interest and value in this
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From Exile to Diaspora: Versions of the Filipino Experience in the United States (Chap. 4 "Bulosan's Metamorphosis: The Return of the Alter/Native") » Read Now
by E. San Juan Jr. 248 pgs.

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

As the largest contingent of Asian/Pacific Islanders in the United States today, Filipinos have been described as "invisible," "forgotten," marginal "others," &, on the whole, inconsequential. From Exile to Diaspora challenges these stereotypes, arguing that Filipinos are actively reassessing their...
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As the largest contingent of Asian/Pacific Islanders in the United States today, Filipinos have been described as "invisible," "forgotten," marginal "others," &, on the whole, inconsequential. From Exile to Diaspora challenges these stereotypes, arguing that Filipinos are actively reassessing their colonial past & engaging in projects of popular-democratic resistance to the transnational system of global commodification. In establishing a new framework for charting Filipino agency within the constraints of late capitalism, the author opens up for laypersons & students of U.S. social history the question of racial justice & equality.
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The More Things Change: Paradigm Shifts in Asian American Studies, in American Studies International » Read Now
by Stephen H. Sumida. 18 pgs.

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...stereotype include, among others, Carlos Bulosan, Hisaye Yamamoto, John Okada...America Is in the Heart (1946) Carlos Bulosan shows how, for the first-person...demonstrate...
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Dictionary of Asian American History ("Bulosan, Carlos" begins on p. 161) » Read Now
by Hyung-Chan Kim. 629 pgs.

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"An informative and well-crafted volume with nearly 800 entries that review the key facts of Asian American and Pacific American history....This work, the first in its field, will be an essential reference for academic and public libraries." Choice
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Asian American Literature: An Introduction to the Writings and Their Social Context ("Carlos Bulosan: A Filipino American Community Portrait" begins on p. 43) » Read Now
by Elaine H. Kim. 363 pgs.

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