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Books on: asian fiction

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The Americas of Asian American Literature: Gendered Fictions of Nation and Transnation

Book by Rachel C. Lee; Princeton University Press, 1999

Subjects:

American Fiction--Asian American Authors--History And Criticism, Asian Americans In Literature, Bulosan, Carlos--Political And Social Views, Feminism And Literature--United States--History--20th Century, Gender Identity In Literature, Hagedorn, Jessica Tarahata--1949---Dogeaters, Jen, Gish--Political And Social Views, National Characteristics, American, In Literature, Sex Role In Literature, Women And Literature--United States--History--20th Century, Yamashita, Karen Tei--1951---Through The Arc Of The Rain Forest

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...following section, I trace the Asian American specificity of Yamashita...SHATTERING THE SPACE-TIME OF ASIAN AMERICAN LITERATURE When reviewers...s novel, they do not label it Asian American fiction; instead, they describe Through...
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The Shapes and Styles of Asian American Prose Fiction

Book by Esther Mikyung Ghymn; Peter Lang Publishing, 1992

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American Fiction--Asian American Authors--History And Criticism, Asian Americans In Literature, Asian Americans--Intellectual Life, Fiction

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...address this question." Kim, Asian American Literature , p. xv...very useful introduction to Asian American literature. Her social...length literary study of Asian American fiction, poetry, drama, and autobiography...elucidates the social history of Asians in the United States...
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Living in America: Poetry and Fiction by South Asian American Writers

Book by Roshni Rustomji-Kerns; Westview Press, 1995

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American Literature--20th Century, American Literature--South Asian American Authors, South Asian Americans--Literary Collections

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...excellent source of information on South Asian American writers: Nelson, Emmanuel...below consistently include South Asian American fiction and poetry: India Currents Magazine...Jose, California Journal of South Asian Literature Michigan State University...
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Asian American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook

Book by Emmanuel S. Nelson; Greenwood Press, 2000

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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

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the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award for Fiction, and an American Book Award from Before Columbus Foundation...the author herself puts it in an edited collection of South Asian fiction and poetry titled Living in America : The challenge lies in...
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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

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...Hagedorns concepts of and wishes for Asian American fiction have gone into the making of her...impact upon the future development of Asian American fiction. While the preface...revisit the history and glory of Asian American literature, Hagedorns...

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Journal Articles on: asian fiction

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Recent Asian American Fiction, Drama, and Film

Journal article by Amy Ling; Transformations, Vol. 6, 1995

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Asian Americans, Asians, Culture, Entertainment, International, Maldives, Minority & ethnic groups, Motion pictures, Multiculturalism & pluralism, Multiracial people

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Recent Asian American Fiction, Drama, and Film by Amy Ling Recent Asian American Fiction, Drama, and Film Asian American...silent or silenced and spoken-for. May we all (Asians and non-Asian Americans) rejoice, enjoy, and benefit (intellectually...
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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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...anything in Chinatown," fiction that focuses on domestic life sees Asians primarily as a danger...Norris also associates Asian objets dart with corporate...experience. The beauty of Asian house decorations expresses...explicitly represent Asians as individuals, late nineteenth-century fiction more commonly represented...decorated with imported Asian objects. John Kuo Wi...
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"Subterranean Fires" and the "Weeds" of Asian Modernity in Lu Xun, Yosano Akiko, and Oba Minako

Journal article by Dennitza Gabrakova; International Fiction Review, Vol. 34, 2007

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Asian literature--Analysis, Asian writers--Works, Modernism (Literature)--Analysis, Oriental literature--Analysis

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...from the idea of the modern Asian woman. She can be regarded...other hand, dramatizes in her fiction the Japanese "awakening" after...the same subterranean vein of Asian modernity, and their interconnections...In this essay these three Asian writers will cross time and...
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Modern Fiction of Southeast Asia: A Literary History

Journal article by Philip Holden; Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 41, 2010

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Books--Book reviews, Modern Fiction of Southeast Asia: A Literary History (Essay collection)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

Modern Fiction of Southeast Asia: A...Arbor: Institute for Asian Studies, 2009. Pp...variety of regional, pan-Asian and transnational movements...the writers of short fiction remained impervious to...quintessentially Southeast Asian form situated, like...
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Ge Liangyan, out of the Margins: The Rise of Chinese Vernacular Fiction

Journal article by Hiroshi Naka; Asian Folklore Studies, Vol. 63, 2004

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Books--Book reviews, Out of the Margins: the Rise of Chinese Vernacular Fiction (Book)--Book reviews

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...Margins: The Rise of Chinese Vernacular Fiction. by Hiroshi Naka GE Liangyan, Out of the Margins: The Rise of Chinese Vernacular Fiction. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press...Shuihu zhuan and the rise of vernacular fiction against the background of the vernacularization...

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Magazine Articles on: asian fiction

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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...Books, Specialising in Erotic Fiction by Black Women. by Vastiana...black writing" or "general fiction". The final decision? Neither...disposable wealth of black and Asian communities at amp;#91...
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Asian Evasion: a Recipe for Flawed Resolutions

Magazine article by Mitchell J. Chang; Diverse Issues in Higher Education, Vol. 25, May 15, 2008

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Asian Americans, California, College admissions, College students, Cost reduction, Higher education

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...invasion" and the other is "Asian evasion." The myth of Asian invasion concerns the widespread belief that Asians have "overtaken" or...College Board report, "Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders: Facts, Not Fiction: Setting the Record Straight...
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Liberal Education in an Asian Context

Magazine article by Kathryn Mohrman; International Educator, Vol. 15, March 2006

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Asians, Cronon, William, Essays, Higher education, International education, Literary criticism

Collections: Education, Literature, Entire Library

...They can enjoy popular fiction, classic literature...inspire responses by Asians and Asian Americans to extend the...comparing Western and Asian characteristics, is...seem strange to many Asians. If the group predominates...traditional values of East Asian societies, the person...
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Is Heritage Month the Real Mccoy? [Asian Heritage Month

Magazine article by Kong Sook C; Vol. 14, Summer 2000

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Asian Canadians, Cultural identity, Vancouver British Columbia Canada

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...community activist, urges that Asian Heritage Month network with...a more incisive component of Asian Heritage Month programming...and simultaneously, around Asian. Challenging these deep issues...cultural. She is a teacher and fiction writer who also contributes...
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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

...Accomplished Stories and Novels South Asian Writers Who Are Exiles in Canada...the finest English-language fiction of our time is being written...G. VASSANJI also took up fiction as a second career, though...passed, the Dublin of Joyces fiction became ever more remote from...

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Newspaper Articles on: asian fiction

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Portrayal of Asian Youth in London Is Amazingly Wide of Mark; FICTION

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), April 10, 2006

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

Portrayal of Asian Youth in London Is Amazingly Wide of Mark; FICTION. Byline: NIRPAL DHALIWAL Londonstani...to connect with the "real" Asian experience had arrived, via...a gritty portrayal of macho Asian youths who menace the streets...
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Sci-Fi Fans 'Steel'ed for 'Contact' with Yuletide Releases: Asian Video Front Comes out Swinging with Action Flicks

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, December 11, 1997

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

...Contact with yuletide releases: Asian video front comes out swinging...New arrivals in the science-fiction arena include DNA (Cabin Fever...Lolita 2000 ($14.95). ASIAN UPDATE Theres plenty of action on the Asian video front. Leading the way...
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Mnet Asian Music Awards 2011 Nominees Bared

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, November 2, 2011

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

Mnet Asian Music Awards 2011 Nominees Bared. MANILA...Philippines - Voting has started for the Mnet Asian Music Awards (MAMA), a show that will...Baek Ji Young - "That Woman," BEAST - "Fiction," Big Bang - "Tonight," and SECRET...
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When Flu Wiped out More Than Died in the Great War; as the Number of Swine Flu Patients in Wales Continues to Soar, David Williamson Looks at the Parallels - and the Differences - with Previous Pandemics, and Speaks to Survivors of the Asian and Hong Kong Flu Outbreaks

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), July 29, 2009

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

...jellyfish that look like science fiction things from outer space - that...more than 50 million lives. Asian flu This reared its head in...Wales 1957 Britain hit by "Asian flu" and a vaccine is developed...strikes on a similar scale to Asian flu 2009 The first case of swine...
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Fiction from Wales Translated to Meet Demand in Asia

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), April 26, 2008

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

Fiction from Wales Translated to Meet Demand in Asia. FICTION by Welsh authors is being translated into Turkish and Arabic to meet Asian bookworms growing interest in contemporary Wales. Publishers in the Middle East have chosen some of the grittiest...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: asian fiction

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American Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...Henry Timrod and Sidney Lanier and the fiction of Thomas Nelson Page all were seized...Rip Van Winkle were based on American fiction; others were crude melodrama. Realism...Turn of the Century Trends in American Fiction The connection of American literature...
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Japanese Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...islands of Japan . See also Asian drama . Earliest Writings Although...Otogi-zoshi, short prose fiction popular among a range of social...satires, and picaresque fiction. Ihara Saikaku was the foremost...important haiku poets. Later Edo fiction, called gesaku, was mostly...
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Man Booker Prize

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...originally 20,000) for a work of fiction by a living British, Irish...given for overall achievement in fiction, it is presented every two...award was announced, the Man Asian Literary Prize. Initiated by...it aims to bring exciting new Asian writers to the attention of...
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Arabic Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...Syrians, Egyptians, Indians, Jews, and other Africans and Asians, as well as the Arabs themselves. The first significant...Avicenna , the great physician, wrote on medicine. The central Asian scholar al-Faralsi, wrote fundamental works on philosophical...Johnson-Davies, ed., The Anchor Book of Modern Arabic Fiction (2006). ____________________ Copyright...
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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

...The Trumpet of the Swan (1970), Madeleine LEngles science-fiction A Wrinkle in Time (1962), Lloyd Alexanders Book of Three...compiles African folktales and Yoko Kawashima Watkins studies Asian oral traditions. During the 1980s and 90s in particular, multicultural...

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