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Books on: asian american novelist

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Asian American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook

Book by Emmanuel S. Nelson; Greenwood Press, 2000

Subjects:

American Fiction--Asian American Authors--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, American Fiction--Asian American Authors--Dictionaries, Asian Americans In Literature--Dictionaries, Asian Americans--Intellectual Life--Dictionaries, Fiction, Novelists, American--Biography--Dictionaries

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...BIOGRAPHY Winnifred Eaton is thought to be the first Asian American novelist and, despite her relative obscurity today, was...thought to be the first novel ever published by an Asian American. Publicity for Winnifred Eaton as Onoto Watanna...
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Contemporary African American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook

Book by Emmanuel S. Nelson; Greenwood Press, 1999

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African American Novelists--Biography--Dictionaries, African Americans In Literature--Dictionaries, American Fiction--20th Century--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, American Fiction--20th Century--Dictionaries, American Fiction--African American Authors--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, American Fiction--African American Authors--Dictionaries, Novelists, American--20th Century--Biography--Dictionaries

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...for intellectual meanness in African and African American religious systems, the latter could mix with other...is influenced by many traditions African, African American, American, Asian, European, and Native American. What is more...
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American Naturalistic and Realistic Novelists: A Biographical Dictionary

Book by E. C. Applegate; Greenwood Press, 2002

Subjects:

American Fiction--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, American Fiction--Dictionaries, Naturalism In Literature--Dictionaries, Novelists, American--Biography--Dictionaries, Realism In Literature--Dictionaries

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Dark Princess: A Romance focuses on a group of African and Asian revolutionaries who intend to liberate the black people of...published in 1935. In it DuBois examines the role of African Americans in the Civil War, arguing that they revolted, and consequently...trilogy depicts the life of Emmanuel Mansart, an African American born in 1876. Through hard work and dedication, he eventually...
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Asian-American Poets: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook

Book by Guiyou Huang; Greenwood Press, 2002

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American Poetry--Asian American Authors--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, American Poetry--Asian American Authors--Dictionaries, Asian Americans In Literature--Dictionaries, Asian Americans--Intellectual Life--Dictionaries, Poets, American--Biography--Dictionaries

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...would eventually evolve into The American Diary of a Japanese Girl . In...and met, among others, the Asian American novelist Onoto Watanna Winnifred Eaton...during the last four years of his American period. A reply to an advertisement...
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Asian American Autobiographers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook

Book by Guiyou Huang; Greenwood Press, 2001

Subjects:

American Prose Literature--Asian American Authors--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, Asian American Authors--Biography--Dictionaries, Asian Americans In Literature--Dictionaries, Asian Americans--Biography--Dictionaries, Autobiographical Fiction, American--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...BIOGRAPHY Winnifred Eaton is thought to be the first Asian American novelist and, despite her relative obscurity today, was...thought to be the first novel ever published by an Asian American. Publicity for Winnifred Eaton as Onoto Watanna...

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Journal Articles on: asian american novelist

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Asian Object Lessons: Orientalist Decoration in Realist Aesthetics from William Dean Howells to Sui Sin Far

Journal article by June Hee Chung; Studies in American Fiction, Vol. 36, 2008

Subjects:

American writers--Criticism and interpretation, American writers--Works, Asian culture--Portrayals, Authors, American--Criticism and interpretation, Authors, American--Works, Eaton, Edith Maude--Criticism and interpretation, Eaton, Edith Maude--Works, Howells, William Dean (American novelist)--Criticism and interpretation, Howells, William Dean (American novelist)--Works, Immigrants--Portrayals, Norris, Frank--Criticism and interpretation, Norris, Frank--Works, Orientalism--Influence

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...furnishings, this version of American Orientalism deviates from characterizing Asian immigrants as barely...domestic life sees Asians primarily as a danger...Asia: Racial Form and American Literature, 1893...the Orient of the American Century ... has signified...manner of representing Asian immigrants as an invisible...Naturalism tied Asian-Americans to the literary forms...
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Aiiieeeee! and the Asian American Literary Movement: A Conversation with Shawn Wong

Journal article by Jeffrey F.L. Partridge; MELUS, Vol. 29, 2004

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Asian American literature--Analysis, Wong, Shawn--Interviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...As I read other books in Asian American literature, I noticed...when relationships between Asian men and women go wrong, the...reason things go wrong. So in American Knees, the main characters dont forget that they are Asians or Asian Americans but they also dont blame the...
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"Who's Jewish?" Some Asian-american Writers and the Jewish-american Literary Canon

Journal article by Jonathan Freedman; Michigan Quarterly Review, Vol. 42, 2003

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Asian Americans, Jews, Literary canon, Writers

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...relation between Asian diasporas and...and Asian-Americans are equally...generation of Asian-American writers more...Calcutta-born novelist Bharati Mukherjee...position of Asian-Americanness is on the American terrain of race...those African-Americans who now occupy...development in Asian-American fiction14 and...for Jewish-Americans understanding...
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The More Things Change: Paradigm Shifts in Asian American Studies

Journal article by Stephen H. Sumida; American Studies International, Vol. 38, 2000

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American literature--Asian-American authors, Asian Americans--Social aspects, Assimilation (Sociology)--Analysis, Ethnicity--United States

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...identified as the myth of Asian American "dual identity...impossible to assimilate, Asians in America were described...with being part-Asian and part-American. Now, a quarter...terms that cast Asian Americans into deep shadows...consider themselves "Asians in America" rather than "Asian Americans." More accurately...coalition known as "Asian American" in the 1960s and...
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Where Are You Really from? Asian Americans and the Perpetual Foreigner Syndrome

Journal article by Frank H. Wu; Civil Rights Journal, Vol. 6, 2002

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Asian Americans--Attitudes, Asian Americans--Social aspects

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...upsetting to Asian Americans even if it carries...I cannot be a real American. The other questions...I suppose, ask Asian Americans where they are really...what they say about Asians, or there may be...like translated. Asians and Asian Americans occasionally ask me...person to become an American citizen. When I have...

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Magazine Articles on: asian american novelist

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Commentary: Black and Asian Novelists Have Never Been More Commercially Successful. but Who Is Profiting? Not Independent Publishers, That's for Sure, as Vastiana Belfon Discovered When She Set Up Brown Skin Books, Specialising in Erotic Fiction by Black Women

Magazine article by Vastiana Belfon; New Statesman, Vol. 133, June 7, 2004

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Book publishing--Personal narratives, Minority authors--Personal narratives, Minority authors--Social aspects, Minority writers--Personal narratives, Minority writers--Social aspects

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...Commentary: Black and Asian Novelists Have Never Been More...Deborah Dyson, an American publishing consultant...disposable wealth of black and Asian communities at amp...the success of African American and black British authors...
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Say It Ain't So, Joe! a Nobel Prize-Winning American Economist and a Cynical English Novelist Agree on One Thing-It's Time for Capitalism to Slow Down

Magazine article by Paul Mason; New Statesman, Vol. 139, January 25, 2010

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Books--Book reviews, Freefall: Free Markets and the Sinking of the Global Economy (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews, Whoops! Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

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...Nobel Prize-Winning American Economist and a Cynical English Novelist Agree on One Thing...capitalism since the Asian financial crisis of...risky for the 16 million Americans who have no job, and...reason. Lanchester, a novelist and columnist, belongs...would expect from a novelist, through the concepts...
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Divided Loyalties: The Historical Presence of South Asian Men and Women in Britain Has Been Ignored for Too Long, Says Shompa Lahiri, Who Has Investigated Their Experiences during the Second World War

Magazine article by Shompa Lahiri; History Today, Vol. 57, May 2007

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Asian refugees--History, British Empire, ca. 1600-1970--History, Great Britain (World War II)--History, Refugees, Asian--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Inayat Khan, and his American wife, Nora Baker...Lives (2005). South Asian women were also involved...Second World War. South Asian involvement in the war...members of British South Asian society. Dhanvanthi...involved. Not all South Asians resident in Britain...leadership. The writer and novelist Mulk Raj Anand, who...
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Toronto Circle: In Accomplished Stories and Novels South Asian Writers Who Are Exiles in Canada Are Re-creating the Worlds They Left Behind

Magazine article by Jamie James; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 285, April 2000

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Asian writers, Canada, Canadian literature, Canadian writers, Mistry, Rohinton, Selvadurai, Shyam, South Asians--Canada, Vassanji, M.G.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Stories and Novels South Asian Writers Who Are Exiles...characters! Most of the new American and British novels I...autobiographical account of the novelists immigratory past, his...they found many South Asian writers at work in Canada...understatement of the English novelists writing at the time...African-Canadian novelist and keep a straight...
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Salman Rushdie and the Sea of Stories: The World-Famous Fabulist Speculates about the Innate Theatricality of His Richly Imaginative Novels

Magazine article by Davia Nelson, Shazia Ahmad; American Theatre, Vol. 20, March 2003

Subjects:

Haroun (Book)--Authorship, Haroun and the Sea of Stories (Theater), Midnight's Children (Theater)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Novelists--Interviews, Royal Shakespeare Company, Rushdie, Salman--Authorship

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...he introduced the novelist Salman Rushdie to...of 20 British-Asian actors, crosses...first professional American production of Haroun...book. I have the novelists contempt for the...observes that the novelist himself has been...and young South Asians eager to see something...

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Newspaper Articles on: asian american novelist

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Enigmatic Novelist Delivers Another Dense, Majestic Plot

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, December 10, 2006

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Comedians, Novelists, Pynchon, Thomas

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Enigmatic Novelist Delivers Another Dense, Majestic Plot...oppressive) evidence that Thomas Pynchon is an American writer like none other before him. Behind...Perhaps the answer lies in the mythical Asian paradise of Shambhala (the goal of Kits...
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Ford and O'Flaherty; A Scene from John Ford's Film of the Informer, and, Inset, Novelist Liam O'Flaherty

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), August 31, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Informer, and, Inset, Novelist Liam OFlaherty. QUESTION...term urban legend? AMERICAN academic Dr Jan Harold...editorof the Journal of American Folklore from 1976 to...Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends And TheirMeanings...abroad (such as the Asian tiger mosquito,Aedes...
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Do I Really Look as If I'd Have Diana Killed? Top Spook-Turned-Novelist Stella Rimington, the Onetime Head of MI5, Talks for the First Time about How Her Job Kept Her Isolated from Family and Friends

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), June 11, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Have Diana Killed? Top Spook-Turned-Novelist Stella Rimington, the Onetime Head of...Zander, the former of whom is a young Asian volunteer. Does this happen in real life...when his family are gunned down by an American warplane while attending a wedding party...
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Asian Slaves in Mexico's History

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, February 4, 2005

Subjects:

Tolentino, Nicolas

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Asian Slaves in Mexicos History...MEXICO CITY About 100,000 Asian slaves were brought to Mexico...story was pieced together by American historian William Mason...Lazaro Cardenas, writer and novelist Vicente Riva Palacio, Gaspar...
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Indochina ... Just as the Captain Ordered; ANCIENT TREASURES: The Temples of Angkor in Cambodia ... Just One of Many Highlights for Carol on Her Asian Adventure

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), September 28, 2008

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...One of Many Highlights for Carol on Her Asian Adventure. Byline: Carol Drinkwater...Metropole, where previous guests include novelist Graham Greene. The Metropole, built...Vietnam War (known to the Vietnamese as the American War), and communism. I was at the heart...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: asian american novelist

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American Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...prose styles, such novelists as Don DeLillo , Peter...attitudes in contemporary American society. The literature...the work of African-American (e.g., Nobel Prize...Cisneros), Native American (e.g., Louise Erdrich...Scott Momaday), Asian-American (e.g...
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Tan, Amy

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

TAN, AMY 1952 , American novelist, b. Oakland, Calif. The daughter of Chinese immigrants, she has taken for her theme the lives of Asian-Americans and the generational and cultural differences among them...

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