Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Asian Gothic Asian Gothic Andrew Hock-soon Ng "Broadly divided into essays on postcolonial Asian Gothic, Asian-American Gothic, and Gothic writings of specific Asian nations. The essays of Part One demonstrate flexibility in adopting divergent. … OL18652413W
Adamantine Adamantine Shin Yu Pai Poems. OL19945035W
Mad honey symposium Mad honey symposium Sally Wen Mao ""Like Sylvia Plath's poems, these visionary poems are not only astute records of experience, they are themselves dazzling, verbal experiences. Worldly, wily, wise: Mad Honey Symposium is an extraord… OL19988539W
Standing water Standing water Eleanor Chai "A first collection of poems that bear a disarming lyricism and vulnerability"-- OL20030675W
The new deal The new deal Christine Toy Four plays by Christine Toy Johnson, an award winning playwright, actor, and filmmaker living in NYC. OL21181945W
Dance among elephants Dance among elephants Krysada Panusith Phounsiri "Through the author's photography and poetry, Dance among elephants explores the elusive history of the Laotian Diaspora and the challenge of identity politics, ideology, and the music of relationshi… OL26175786W
The Asian Pacific American Heritage The Asian Pacific American Heritage George Jay Leonard Multicultural courses are generally taught by exposing students to literature or arts, with reference to their political, sociological, and historical contexts. This book is designed to help students… OL3931209W
American Eyes American Eyes Lori M. Carlson These ten stories reflect the conflict Asian Americans face in balancing an ancient heritage and an unknown future. OL546186W
Matadora Matadora Sarah Verdes Gambito “Every once in a while a poetry book bursts onto the scene—heavy with luggage tagged from all manner of airports—just begging to be unpacked… *Matadora* introduces us to a fearless new talent, whose … OL5714022W
Eating identities Eating identities Wenying Xu 'Eating Identities' is the first book to link food to a wide range of Asian American concerns such as race and sexuality. Xu provides lucid and informed interpretations of seven Asian American writer… OL6034308W
Foreign Wife Elegy Foreign Wife Elegy Yuko Taniguchi This debut collection bears witness to the compassion of nurses, the hardships of injury and illness, and the solitude brought on by marrying outside one’s culture. In these quiet and deceptively sim… OL6035370W
Real Karaoke People Real Karaoke People Ed-bok Lee Poetry. A dramatic debut, *Real Karaoke People* juxtaposes tradition and pop culture to bridge generations and continents in a way both heart-rending and real. Poems and prose engage readers with viv… OL8641883W
Zero Gravity Zero Gravity Eric Gamalinda “These are the words of someone who understands that language holds much more than words; within the syllables, consonants and vowels, there are counties, islands, loved ones, histories of loss and r… OL950340W
Fighting Kite Fighting Kite Vince Gotera From book cover: *Fighting Kite* narrates, in verse, the life of Martin Avila Gotera — son, trickster, soldier, schizophrenic, visionary, lawyer, workingman, father — a life that glimmers like a n… OL9835178W
Latehomecomer Latehomecomer Kao Kalia Yang In search of a place to call home, thousands of Hmong families made the journey from the war-torn jungles of Laos to the overcrowded refugee camps of Thailand and onward to America. But lacking a wri… OL9849489W