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

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Asian‐ American Women Writers

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The Analysis of Women Writers

Introduction

Diana Chang B. 1934

Edith Maude Eaton 1865-1914 Winnifred Eaton 1875-1954

Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn B. 1949

Maxine Hong Kingston B. 1940

Joy Kogawa B. 1935

Bharati Mukherjee B. 1938

Amy Tan B. 1952

Linda Ty-Casper B. 1931

Jade Snow Wong B. 1919

Hisaye Yamamoto B. 1921

Wakako Yamauchi B. 1924
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Asian American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook ("Jade Snow Wong" begins on p. 387)
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 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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Meena Alexander: (1951- )

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Himani Bannerji: (1942- )

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Susham Bedi: (1945- )

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William Peter Blatty: (1928- )

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Vance Bourjaily: (1922- )

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Cecilia Manguerra Brainard: (1947- )

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Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: (1951-1982)

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Diana Chang: (1934- )

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Evelina Chao: (1949- )

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Frank Chin: (1940- )

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Sook Nyul Choi: (1937- )

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Susan Choi: (1969- )

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Denise Chong: (1953- )

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Louis Hing Chu: (1915-1970)

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Richard Crasta (also Avatar Prabhu): (1952- )

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Kiran Desai: (1972- )

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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: (1956- )

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Winnifred Eaton: (1875-1954)

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Indira Ganesan: (1960- )

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Stephen Gill: (1932- )

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Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn: (1949- )

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Chuang Hua: (?- )

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Cynthia Kadohata: (1956- )

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Younghill Kang: (1903-1972)

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Richard E. Kim: (1937- )

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Maxine Hong Kingston: (1940-)

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Bharti Kirchner: (1940- )

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Joy Kogawa: (1935- )

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Alex Kuo: (1939- )

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Helena Kuo: (1911- )

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Chang-Rae Lee: (1965- )

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C. Y. Lee: (1917- )

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Gus Lee: (1946- )

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Marie G. Lee: (1964- )

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Sky Lee: (1952- )

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Adet Lin (also Tan Yun): (1923-1971)

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Steven C. Lo: (1949- )

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Bette Bao Lord: (1938- )

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Anchee Min: (1957- )

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Rohinton Mistry: (1952- )

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Kyoko Mori: (1957- )

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Toshio Mori: (1910-1980)

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Bharati Mukherjee: (1940- )

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Milton Murayama: (1923- )

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Kirin Narayan: (1959- )

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Fae Myenne Ng: (1957- )

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Mei Ng: (1967- )

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Hualing Nieh: (1925- )

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Sanjay Nigam: (1959- )

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John Okada: (1923-1971)

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Michael Ondaatje: (1943- )

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Nahid Rachlin: (1947- )

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Balachandra Rajan: (1920- )

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Ninotchka Rosca: (1946- )

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Patsy Sumie Saiki: (1915- )

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Bienvenicio N. Santos: (1911-1996)

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Lisa Lenine See: (1955- )

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Shyam Selvadurai: (1965- )

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Vikram Seth: (1952- )

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S. Shankar: (1962- )

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Bapsi Sidhwa: (1938- )

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Mai-Mai Sze: (1905- )

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Lin Tai-Yi (also Anor Lin or Lin Wu-Shuang): (1926- )

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Amy Tan: (1952- )

Linda Ty-Casper: (1931- )

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Holly Uyemoto: (1970- )

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Jade Snow Wong: (1922- )

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Shawn Wong: (1949- )

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Lois-Ann Yamanaka: (1961- )

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Karen Tei Yamashita: (1951- )

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Selected Bibliography

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About the Editor and Contributors
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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")
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 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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Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Discoursing Food: Some Notes Toward a Semiotic of Eating in Ancient China

I: The Social Embodiment of Modernity

2. Lu Xun and Cannibalism

II: Writing Hunger: from Mao to the Dao

5. Postrevolutionary Leftovers: Zhang Xianliang and Ah Cheng

III: The Return (of) Cannibalism After Tiananmen, or Red Monument in a Latrine Pit

7. from Cannibalism to Carnivorism: Mo Yan's Liquorland

IV: Sampling of Variety: Gender and Cross-Cultural Perspectives

8. Embodied Spaces of Home: Xiao Hong, Wang Anyi, and LI Ang

9. Blending Chinese in America: Maxine Hong Kingston, Jade Snow Wong, and Amy Tan

Conclusion

Notes

Index
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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?")
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 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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Betrayal and Other Acts of Subversion: Feminism, Sexual Politics, Asian American Women's Literature

To Russ and Julian

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Acknowledgments

Betrayal and Other Acts of Subversion

One: Introduction

Two: To Enjoy Being a Girl

Three: The Triumph of the Prefeminist Chinese Woman?

Four: Third World Testimony in the Era of Globalization

Five: The Gendered Subject of Human Rights

Afterword: Multiplying Loyalties

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Works Cited

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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")
by Elaine H. Kim. 361 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

Preface

1: Images of Asians in Anglo-American Literature

2: From Asian to Asian American Early Asian Immigrant Writers

3: Sacrifice for Success Second-Generation Self-Portrait

4: Portraits of Chinatown

5: Japanese American Family and Community Portraits

6: Chinatown Cowboys and Warrior Women Searching for a New Self-Image

7: Multiple Mirrors and Many Images New Directions in Asian American Literature

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Of Orphans and Warriors: Inventing Chinese American Culture and Identity ("Jade Snow Wong" begins on p. 61)
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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Acknowledgments

Introduction

1: "Go West . . . To China" Chinese Americans In the 1930s

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2: "Bridging The Gap" Cultural Interpreters Of The World War II Era

Conclusion

3: "To Become Still Better Americans " The Challenge Of China Turning Communist

4: "Claiming America" The Birth of An Asian American Sensibility

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5: "Punching Our Way Out" Beyond Asian American Identity

Conclusion

Notes

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About the Author
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Aiieeeee! An Introduction to Asian-American Writing, in Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars
by Frank Chin, Lawson Fusao Inada, Shawn Hsu Wong. 15 pgs.

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