Asian American Books


Nation, Race & History in Asian American Literature: Re-membering the Body (Modern American Literature: New Approaches)Nation, Race & History in Asian American Literature: Re-membering the Body (Modern American Literature: New Approaches)
Best Price: $35.95
Nation, Race & History in Asian American Literature discusses the ideological processes at...
Banquet Bug, TheBanquet Bug, The
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I stumbled on The Banquet Bug by Geling Yan in my "local independent book store." I...
Asian Diasporas: Cultures, Identities, RepresentationsAsian Diasporas: Cultures, Identities, Representations
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Asian diasporas are all too often seen in terms of settlement problems in a host nation, where...
Japanese American Internment Camps (Cornerstones of Freedom. Second Series)Japanese American Internment Camps (Cornerstones of Freedom. Second Series)
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Dramatic and defining moments in American history come vividly the life in the Cornerstones of...
Transnational Asian American Literature: Sites and TransitsTransnational Asian American Literature: Sites and Transits
Best Price: $23.60
Transnational Asian American Literature: Sites and Transits examines the diasporic and...


One Hundred Million HeartsOne Hundred Million Hearts
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Sakamoto's novel has a very strong premise. A Canadian-Japanese woman discovers that her...
Asian-American Scientists (American Profiles)Asian-American Scientists (American Profiles)
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East Indians In AmericaEast Indians In America
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Goblin Fruit: StoriesGoblin Fruit: Stories
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This collection is gorgeous--full of pop culture references, yes, but the stories have an odd,...
Living in America: Poetry and Fiction by South Asian American WritersLiving in America: Poetry and Fiction by South Asian American Writers
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For centuries, people from the Indian subcontinent have been on the move. They migrated to...


Betrayal and Other Acts of Subversion: Feminism, Sexual Politics, Asian American Women's LiteratureBetrayal and Other Acts of Subversion: Feminism, Sexual Politics, Asian American Women's Literature
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Smart stuff. I found this book especially lucid because it nicely integrates "theory"...
Locke 1928Locke 1928
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Having just put this book down, I am still slack-jawed at the richness of Ms. Ryan's...
Returning a Borrowed Tongue: An Anthology of Filipino and Filipino American PoetryReturning a Borrowed Tongue: An Anthology of Filipino and Filipino American Poetry
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This book is a must read for those trying to understand the assimilation of Filipino's into the...
Paper Daughter: A MemoirPaper Daughter: A Memoir
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I loved this book and found it immensely readable. The writing carried you along without you...
Resource Guide to Asian American LiteratureResource Guide to Asian American Literature
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In A Resource Guide To Asian American Literature over twenty essays provide background materials...

Assimilating Asians: Gendered Strategies of Authorship in Asian America (New Americanists)Assimilating Asians: Gendered Strategies of Authorship in Asian America (New Americanists)
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One of the central tasks of Asian American literature, argues Patricia P. Chu, has been to...
The Modernist Response to Chinese Art: Pound, Moore, StevensThe Modernist Response to Chinese Art: Pound, Moore, Stevens
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What role did Chinese art play in the poetic development of Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, and...
Misreading the Chinese Character: Images of the Chinese in Euroamerican Drama to 1925 (Asian Thought and Culture, Vol. 40)Misreading the Chinese Character: Images of the Chinese in Euroamerican Drama to 1925 (Asian Thought and Culture, Vol. 40)
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Beyond Literary Chinatown (American Ethnic and Cultural Studies)Beyond Literary Chinatown (American Ethnic and Cultural Studies)
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The phenomenon of ?literary Chinatown?--the ghettoization of Chinese American literature--was...
The Chinaman Pacific & Frisco R.R. Co.The Chinaman Pacific & Frisco R.R. Co.
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Often people say that Frank Chin is an activist. This is true, but we shouldn't forget that he...

The Village Bride of Beverly Hills: A NovelThe Village Bride of Beverly Hills: A Novel
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I am not much of a novel reader. But just the title of the book enchanted me. Just the title...
Comparative PoeticsComparative Poetics
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"Comparative literature," Earl Miner writes, "clearly involves something more...
The Bonesetters Daughter(abridged Audio Cass)The Bonesetters Daughter(abridged Audio Cass)Flippin': Filipinos on America [Asian American Writers' Workshop]Flippin': Filipinos on America [Asian American Writers' Workshop]
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Here for the first time are Filipino and Filipino American writers telling their lives in their...
Rhapsody in Plain Yellow: PoemsRhapsody in Plain Yellow: Poems
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Unfortunately when I received the book I opened it and the pages fell out. I notified the...

Take Out Cl (Asian American Writers Worksh)Take Out Cl (Asian American Writers Worksh)
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I think this is a great book, one that is going on groundbreaking turf. Yes, the table of...
Vera Wang Queen of Fashion; Amazing Chinese American (Biographies of Amazing Asian Americans) (Biographies of Amazing Asian Americans) (Biographies of Amazing Asian Americans)Vera Wang Queen of Fashion; Amazing Chinese American (Biographies of Amazing Asian Americans) (Biographies of Amazing Asian Americans) (Biographies of Amazing Asian Americans)
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What a wonderful fairy-tale story -- all the more amazing because it's a true story about a real...
Kaleidoscope: A Multicultural Booklist for Grades K-8 (Ncte Bibliography Series)Kaleidoscope: A Multicultural Booklist for Grades K-8 (Ncte Bibliography Series)
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The book review published for Kaleidoscope has absolutely nothing to do with the book. There...
Sui Sin Far / Edith Maude Eaton: A LITERARY BIOGRAPHY (Asian American Experience)Sui Sin Far / Edith Maude Eaton: A LITERARY BIOGRAPHY (Asian American Experience)
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What You Call Winter: Stories (Borzoi Books)What You Call Winter: Stories (Borzoi Books)
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Like Lahiri did with displaced Bengali families, Jones does with Catholics in Santa Clara (read...

Extraordinary Asian Pacific Americans (Extraordinary People (Paperback))Extraordinary Asian Pacific Americans (Extraordinary People (Paperback))
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Queen Salote of Tonga: The Story of an Era, 1900-65Queen Salote of Tonga: The Story of an Era, 1900-65
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After trying to secure this book through Barnes and Nobles, I was told that there would be a...
Siberian DreamSiberian Dream
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Although this was an incredible account and a testimonty of one human's experimental journey...
Eat Everything Before You Die: A Chinaman In The Counterculture (Scott and Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies)Eat Everything Before You Die: A Chinaman In The Counterculture (Scott and Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies)
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I enjoyed the book and support the author's work. But I want to make sure people who are just...
Gary Snyder and the Pacific Rim: Creating Countercultural Community (Contemp North American Poetry)Gary Snyder and the Pacific Rim: Creating Countercultural Community (Contemp North American Poetry)
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In Gary Snyder and the Pacific Rim, Timothy Gray draws upon previously unpublished journals and...

Best Gay Asian EroticaBest Gay Asian Erotica
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Go beyond the locker room in this playful, imaginative, and lushly written collection of gay...
Imagine Otherwise: On Asian Americanist CritiqueImagine Otherwise: On Asian Americanist Critique
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Imagine Otherwise is an incisive critique of the field of Asian American studies. Recognizing...
Dying in a Strange Country: StoriesDying in a Strange Country: Stories
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The linked stories in this collection take place in the Pakistani community of North America....
The Bonesetter's DaughterThe Bonesetter's Daughter
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Afro-OrientalismAfro-Orientalism
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Afro-Orientalism by Bill V. Mullen (University of Minnesota Press) Chapter 1 of Afro-Orientalism...

Art Treasures of the Mahabharata: Classic Art Depicting India's Most Classic LiteratureArt Treasures of the Mahabharata: Classic Art Depicting India's Most Classic Literature
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The battle chronicled in the Mahabharata is one of the most celebrated events in Indian history,...
National Abjection: The Asian American Body OnstageNational Abjection: The Asian American Body Onstage
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This book is imperialistic in that it psoitions the Japanese-American critic as the master-mind...
Origins of Modern Japanese Literature (Post-Contemporary Interventions)Origins of Modern Japanese Literature (Post-Contemporary Interventions)
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This book is a perfect introduction in modern Japanese literature, how to understand the...
But Still Like Air Pb (Asian American History & Cultu)But Still Like Air Pb (Asian American History & Cultu)
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i was taking an acting class and we were required to prepare 3-4 scenes. we were encouraged to...
The Walled Arab City in Literature, Architecture and History: The Living Medina in the Maghrib (Cass Series--History and Society in the Islamic World)The Walled Arab City in Literature, Architecture and History: The Living Medina in the Maghrib (Cass Series--History and Society in the Islamic World)
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This book offers a multidisciplinary approach to the medina, the traditional walled Arab city of...

A Tibetan Family (Journey Between Two Worlds)A Tibetan Family (Journey Between Two Worlds)
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Three Mothers, Three Daughters: Palestinian Women's Stories (Literature of the Middle East)Three Mothers, Three Daughters: Palestinian Women's Stories (Literature of the Middle East)
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In the United States and around the world the thinking about Israel and Palestines is based on...
Double Agency: Acts of Impersonation in Asian American Literature and Culture (Asian America)Double Agency: Acts of Impersonation in Asian American Literature and Culture (Asian America)
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In Double Agency , Tina Chen proposes impersonation as a paradigm for teasing out the...
Bonesetters DaughterBonesetters Daughter
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The Very Inside: An Anthology of Writings by Asian & Pacific Islander LesbiansThe Very Inside: An Anthology of Writings by Asian & Pacific Islander Lesbians
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There is no other book like this. This book represents a Stonewall of the API lesbigay women: a...

On a Bed of RiceOn a Bed of Rice
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How much longer are the intellectual elite going to keep harping on the West with words like...
Uncovering Heian Japan: An Archaeology of Sensation and Inscription (Asia-Pacific)Uncovering Heian Japan: An Archaeology of Sensation and Inscription (Asia-Pacific)
Best Price: $21.95
A vivid reading of Heian court poetry that removes the interpretive screen later imposed in the...
Here Comes Holi: The Festival of ColorsHere Comes Holi: The Festival of Colors
Best Price: $14.85
Title: Here Comes Holi; The Festival of Colors Author: Meenal Pandya Publisher: MeeRa...
  
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