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Asian American Women Writers ("Jade Snow Wong" begins on p. 110) » Read Now
by Harold Bloom. 142 pgs.

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Asian American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook ("Jade Snow Wong" begins on p. 387) » Read Now
by Emmanuel S. Nelson. 424 pgs.

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As a distinct area of literary study, Asian American literature now enjoys a level of critical recognition that was unimaginable when academic interest in the field began modestly some 25 years ago. Part of this recognition stems from the increasing contributions of Asian American novelists, whose...
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As a distinct area of literary study, Asian American literature now enjoys a level of critical recognition that was unimaginable when academic interest in the field began modestly some 25 years ago. Part of this recognition stems from the increasing contributions of Asian American novelists, whose works continue to capture growing levels of popular attention. This reference book provides alphabetically arranged entries for 70 Asian American novelists. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and provides a short biography, a discussion of major works and themes, an overview of the novelist's critical reception, and a bibliography of primary and secondary sources. In addition, the volume concludes with a selected, general bibliography.
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The Mouth That Begs: Hunger, Cannibalism, and the Politics of Eating in Modern China (Chap. 9 "Blending Chinese in America: Maxine Hong Kingston, Jade Snow Wong, and Amy Tan") » Read Now
by Gang Yue. 460 pgs.

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The Chinese ideogram Chi is far richer in connotation than the equivalent English verb "to eat." Chi can also be read as "the mouth that begs for food and words." In China such fundamental acts as eating or refusing to eat can carry enormous symbolic weight. This book examines the twentieth-century...
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The Chinese ideogram Chi is far richer in connotation than the equivalent English verb "to eat." Chi can also be read as "the mouth that begs for food and words." In China such fundamental acts as eating or refusing to eat can carry enormous symbolic weight. This book examines the twentieth-century Chinese political experience as it is represented literature through hunger, cooking, eating, and cannibalising. At the core of Gang Yue's argument lies the premise that the discourse surrounding the most universal of basic human acts-eating-is a culturally specific one.The broad historical scope of this volume illustrates how widely applicable eating-related metaphors can be. For instance, Yue shows how cannibalism symbolises old China under European colonisation in the writing of Lu Xun. In Mo Yan's 1992 novel Liquorland, however, cannibalism becomes the symbol of overindulgent consumerism. Yue considers other writers as well, such as Shen Congwen, Wang Ruowang, Lu Wenfu, Zhang Zianliang, Ah Cheng, Zheng Yi, and Liu Zhenyun. A special section devoted to women writers includes a chapter on Xiao Hong, Wang Anyi, and Li Ang, and another on the Chinese-American women writers Jade Snow Wong, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Amy Tan.The Mouth That Begs will interest sinologists, literary critics, anthropologists, cultural studies scholars, and all others curious about the semiotics of food.
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Betrayal and Other Acts of Subversion: Feminism, Sexual Politics, Asian American Women's Literature (Chap. Three "The Triumph of the Prefeminist Chinese Woman?") » Read Now
by Leslie Bow. 212 pgs.

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Asian American women have long dealt with charges of betrayal within and beyond their communities. Images of their "disloyalty" pervade American culture, from the daughter who is branded a traitor to family for adopting American ways, to the war bride who immigrates in defiance of her countrymen, to...
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Asian American women have long dealt with charges of betrayal within and beyond their communities. Images of their "disloyalty" pervade American culture, from the daughter who is branded a traitor to family for adopting American ways, to the war bride who immigrates in defiance of her countrymen, to a figure such as Yoko Ono, accused of breaking up the Beatles with her "seduction" of John Lennon. Leslie Bow here explores how representations of females transgressing the social order play out in literature by Asian American women. Questions of ethnic belonging, sexuality, identification, and political allegiance are among the issues raised by such writers as Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, Bharati Mukherjee, Jade Snow Wong, Amy Tan, Sky Lee, Le Ly Hayslip, Wendy Law-Yone, Fiona Cheong, and Nellie Wong. Beginning with the notion that feminist and Asian American identity are mutually exclusive, Bow analyzes how women serve as boundary markers between ethnic or national collectives in order to reveal the male-based nature of social cohesion.In exploring the relationship between femininity and citizenship, liberal feminism and American racial discourse, and women's domestic abuse and human rights, the author suggests that Asian American women not only mediate sexuality's construction as a determiner of loyalty but also manipulate that construction as a tool of political persuasion in their writing. The language of betrayal, she argues, offers a potent rhetorical means of signaling how belonging is policed by individuals and by the state. Bow's bold analysis exposes the stakes behind maintaining ethnic, feminist, and national alliances, particularly for women who claim multiple loyalties.
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Asian American Literature: An Introduction to the Writings and Their Social Context (Chap. 3 "Sacrifice for Success Second-Generation Self-Portrait") » Read Now
by Elaine H. Kim. 361 pgs.

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...successful search for the formula that was to make him an Oriental Yankee." Like the autobiographies by Pardee Lowe, Jade Snow Wong, Monica Sone, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston...
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Of Orphans and Warriors: Inventing Chinese American Culture and Identity ("Jade Snow Wong" begins on p. 61) » Read Now
by Gloria Heyung Chun. 204 pgs.

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Gloria Heyung Chun is currently teaching Asian American History at Bard College.
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Aiieeeee! An Introduction to Asian-American Writing, in Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars » Read Now
by Frank Chin, Lawson Fusao Inada, Shawn Hsu Wong. 15 pgs.

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...autobiographies of Pardee Lowe and later Jade Snow Wong were treated less as works of...their place is clear in the work of Jade Snow Wong and Virginia Lee. They both...