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Books on: asian american novelists

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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

...Stitch: An Asian American Womens Anthology...Asian American novelists. The chapters...referencing, whenever a novelist who is also the...American" and "Asian" deserves explanation...experiences of Asians in Canada and...majority of published Asian American writers...America than other Asians, and numerically...her pioneering Asian American Literature: An...She adds Korean Americans to the other three...
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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

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...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

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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 Short Story Writers: An A-To-Z Guide

Book by Guiyou Huang, Emmanuel S. Nelson; Greenwood Press, 2003

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American Fiction--20th Century--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, American Fiction--20th Century--Dictionaries, Asian American Authors--Biography--Dictionaries, Asian Americans In Literature--Dictionaries, Asian Americans--Intellectual Life--Dictionaries, Authors, American--20th Century--Biography--Dictionaries, Immigrants In Literature--Dictionaries, Short Stories, American--Asian American Authors--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, Short Stories, American--Asian American Authors--Dictionaries

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...David R. Peck, eds. Teaching American Ethnic Literatures: Nineteen...Nelson, Emmanuel S., ed. Asian American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical...Trudeau, Lawrence J., ed. Asian American Literature: Reviews...
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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

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...reference volume. Like the three volumes already published in this series, Nelsons Asian American Novelists , Huangs Asian American Autobiographers , Miles X. Lius Asian American Playwrights , and later to come, Huangs Asian American Short Story Writers...

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Journal Articles on: asian american novelists

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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

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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

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...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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Passing in the Post-Race Era: Danzy Senna, Philip Roth, and Colson Whitehead

Journal article by Michele Elam; African American Review, Vol. 41, 2007

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Passing (Racial identity)--Portrayals, Roth, Philip (American novelist)--Criticism and interpretation, Roth, Philip (American novelist)--Works, Senna, Danzy--Criticism and interpretation, Senna, Danzy--Works, Whitehead, Colson--Criticism and interpretation, Whitehead, Colson--Works

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...white, and simultaneously American, through and against blackness...The "conversion of Jews to Americans by blackface," involves...Boundaries in Schools." American Behavioral Scientist 47...Lisa. Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics...legitimate realization of American self-initiative and self...are no different from those Americans who create themselves in...
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Aiieeeee! an Introduction to Asian-American Writing

Journal article by Frank Chin, Lawson Fusao Inada, Shawn Hsu Wong; Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, Vol. 4, 1972

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Asia

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...other sympathetic novelists to distill their...establishment. Only five American-born Chinese...only Chinese-American writer to publish...stereotypes of Chinese-Americans to be true and...majority of Chinese-Americans, now Ive seen...Chinese, you know, American conflict like that...and unacceptable Asian is utterly without...
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Performing Identity in Gish Jen's Mona in the Promised Land

Journal article by Fu-Jen Chen; International Fiction Review, Vol. 34, 2007

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Asian American literature--Analysis, Jen, Gish--Criticism and interpretation, Mona in the Promised Land (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, Novelists--Criticism and interpretation, Novels--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...of class and race in Asian-American literature...Gish Jen, a Chinese-American writer. In many interviews...her novels Typical American (1991) and Mona in...including "typical" Americans, Jews, Chinese...Conversations with Asian American Writers, ed. King...Solidarity among Asian Americans," The New Asian Immigration...
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Anxious and Ambivalent Representations: Nineteenth-century Images of Chinese American Men

Journal article by Floyd Cheung; The Journal of American Culture, Vol. 30, 2007

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Anxieties, Asian Americans, Masculinity, Men, Political campaigns, Popular culture, Strikes

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...journalists, cartoonists, novelists, and playwrights represented Chinese American men as both docile...ways in which Chinese American men were imagined as "not quite" American and "not quite" men...much about how Euro-Americans defined "authentic...Lisa Lowe points out, Asian Americans serve as...

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Magazine Articles on: asian american novelists

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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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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.

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...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

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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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Songs of Innovation and Experience: Virginia Woolf's Novels Push Theatremakers into the Unknown. Her Only Play Holds Surprises, Too

Magazine article by Nicole Estvanik Taylor; American Theatre, Vol. 26, February 2009

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Bogart, Anne--Works, Freshwater (Play)--Social aspects, Novelists--Works, Theatrical directors--Works, Theatrical producers and directors--Works, Woolf, Virginia--Works

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...while not new, is cresting internationally. This month American super-auteur Robert Wilson revisits his 20-year old adaptation...and adaptor Wolfgang Wiens and Darryl Pinckney, and allowing Asian cultural influences to filter into the piece. As with most...

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Newspaper Articles on: asian american novelists

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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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George Osborne's Brother Becomes a Muslim; He Is the Son of a Millionaire Baronet, She Is the Brilliant Surgeon Daughter of a Barely-Educated Bangladeshi Restaurant Owner. How the Shadow Chancellor's Brother Converted to Islam to Marry His Love of 14 Years

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), December 6, 2009

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Domestic relations, Family relations, Islam--United Kingdom, Muslims, Restaurants, Restaurateurs, Silverberg, Robert (American novelist), Surgeons

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

...civil ceremony, the other a traditional Asian Muslim celebration. Dr Osbornes religious...The second wedding was a more colourful Asian affair at a banqueting hall in Withington...people attended, more than half of them Asians, made up of Dr Noors family, relatives...sides did not really come together. The Asians were on one side of the room and English...
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FTSE Plunges as Republicans Bid to Block US Bail-Out Plans; Support: Clarke Boosts Osborne

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), November 20, 2008

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Political parties, Silverberg, Robert (American novelist), United Kingdom. Bank of England

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

...shares fell more than 200 points in the last few minutes of trading last night as Wall Street fell heavily. Overnight, the Asian markets followed suit and traders in the City continued the trend with the Footsie falling 86.42 at 3919.26. That was the...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: asian american novelists

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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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Children's Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...book published in the American colonies, taught the...for teenagers. Other novelists that write convincingly...Kawashima Watkins studies Asian oral traditions. During...tales of the Japanese-American immigrant experience...the first time to an American, Maurice Sendak , in...

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