Classics of Asian American Literature – serie
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19 produkter
Citizen 13660
Av Miné Okubo
Inbunden, 2014
380 kr
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Mine Okubo was one of over one hundred thousand people of Japanese descent - nearly two-thirds of whom were American citizens - who were forced into “protective custody” shortly after Pearl Harbor. Citizen 13660, Okubo's graphic memoir of life in relocation centers in California and Utah, …
Citizen 13660
Av Miné Okubo
Häftad, 2014
282 kr
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Mine Okubo was one of over one hundred thousand people of Japanese descent - nearly two-thirds of whom were American citizens - who were forced into “protective custody” shortly after Pearl Harbor. Citizen 13660, Okubo's graphic memoir of life in relocation centers in California and Utah, …
Pangs of Love and Other Writings
Häftad, 2019
390 kr
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An apprentice sushi chef and a mysterious blue-eyed woman share a bottle of wine inside a climate-controlled otter tank. The Great Wall of China grumbles as workers forego construction to watch an imperial game of baseball. A young woman tries to imagine a future unsullied by her family’s history …
Pangs of Love and Other Writings
Inbunden, 2019
2152 kr
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An apprentice sushi chef and a mysterious blue-eyed woman share a bottle of wine inside a climate-controlled otter tank. The Great Wall of China grumbles as workers forego construction to watch an imperial game of baseball. A young woman tries to imagine a future unsullied by her family’s history …
Fifth Chinese Daughter
Häftad, 2019
339 kr
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Jade Snow Wong’s autobiography portrays her coming-of-age in San Francisco's Chinatown, offering a rich depiction of her immigrant family and her strict upbringing, as well as her rebellion against family and societal expectations for a Chinese woman. Originally published in 1950, Fifth Chinese …
Aiiieeeee!
An Anthology of Asian American Writers
Av Frank Chin, Jeffery Paul Chan m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
442 kr
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In the eyes of mid-twentieth-century white America, “Aiiieeeee!” was the one-dimensional cry from Asian Americans, their singular expression of all emotions—it signified and perpetuated the idea of Asian Americans as inscrutable, foreign, self-hating, undesirable, and obedient. In this anthology …
Fifth Chinese Daughter
Inbunden, 2019
1871 kr
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Jade Snow Wong’s autobiography portrays her coming-of-age in San Francisco's Chinatown, offering a rich depiction of her immigrant family and her strict upbringing, as well as her rebellion against family and societal expectations for a Chinese woman. Originally published in 1950, Fifth Chinese …
Quiet Odyssey
A Pioneer Korean Woman in America
Av Mary Paik Lee, Sucheng Chan
Inbunden, 2019
1987 kr
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Mary Paik Lee left her native country in 1905, traveling with her parents as a political refugee after Japan imposed control over Korea. Her father worked in the sugar plantations of Hawaii briefly before taking his family to California. They shared the poverty-stricken existence endured by …
Aiiieeeee!
An Anthology of Asian American Writers
Av Frank Chin, Jeffery Paul Chan m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
2152 kr
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In the eyes of mid-twentieth-century white America, “Aiiieeeee!” was the one-dimensional cry from Asian Americans, their singular expression of all emotions—it signified and perpetuated the idea of Asian Americans as inscrutable, foreign, self-hating, undesirable, and obedient. In this anthology …
Awake in the River and Shedding Silence
Inbunden, 2022
2152 kr
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Groundbreaking poems in Asian American feminist literatureFierce, raw, and unapologetic, Janice Mirikitani’s poetry and prose are as vibrant and resonant today as when these two collections were first published in 1978 and 1987. Now back in print in one volume, Awake in the River and Shedding …
Awake in the River and Shedding Silence
Häftad, 2022
442 kr
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Groundbreaking poems in Asian American feminist literatureFierce, raw, and unapologetic, Janice Mirikitani’s poetry and prose are as vibrant and resonant today as when these two collections were first published in 1978 and 1987. Now back in print in one volume, Awake in the River and Shedding …
Picture Bride
A Novel
Häftad, 2022
296 kr
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The story of a Japanese American picture bride, from Angel Island to TopazSeeking an escape from life in her small village in Japan, Hana Omiya arrives in California in 1917, one of thousands of Japanese “picture brides” whose arranged marriages brought them to the United States. When she finally …
Dancer Dawkins and the California Kid
Av Willyce Kim
Häftad, 2023
296 kr
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A sapphic novel ahead of its time that delights in queer joy, love, and adventureDancer Dawkins is a swift-footed, weed-smoking football stud. Her lover, Jessica, left their place in Los Angeles to join a Napa Valley cult, where she believes she has found salvation. Willie Gutherie, the …
America Is in the Heart
A Personal History
Häftad, 2014
311 kr
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First published in 1943, this classic memoir by well-known Filipino poet Carlos Bulosan describes his boyhood in the Philippines, his voyage to America, and his years of hardship and despair as an itinerant laborer following the harvest trail in the rural West.
Nisei Daughter
Av Monica Sone
Häftad, 2014
266 kr
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With charm, humor, and deep understanding, Monica Sone tells what it was like to grow up Japanese American on Seattle’s waterfront in the 1930s and to be subjected to “relocation” during World War II. Along with over one hundred thousand other persons of Japanese ancestry — most of whom were U.S. …
Yokohama, California
Av Toshio Mori
Häftad, 2015
327 kr
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Yokohama, California, originally released in 1949, is the first published collection of short stories by a Japanese American. Set in a fictional community, these linked stories are alive with the people, gossip, humor, and legends of Japanese America in the 1930s and 1940s.Replaces ISBN …
Desert Exile
The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family
Häftad, 2015
349 kr
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After the attack on Pearl Harbor, everything changed for Yoshiko Uchida. Desert Exile is her autobiographical account of life before and during World War II. The book does more than relate the day-to-day experience of living in stalls at the Tanforan Racetrack, the assembly center just south of San …
Scent of Apples
A Collection of Stories
Häftad, 2015
390 kr
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Winner of the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book AwardThis collection of sixteen stories brings the work of a distinguished Filipino writer to an American audience. Scent of Apples contains work from the 1940s to the 1970s. Although many of Santos's writings have been published in the …
Quiet Odyssey
A Pioneer Korean Woman in America
Av Mary Paik Lee, Sucheng Chan
Häftad, 2019
392 kr
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Mary Paik Lee left her native country in 1905, traveling with her parents as a political refugee after Japan imposed control over Korea. Her father worked in the sugar plantations of Hawaii briefly before taking his family to California. They shared the poverty-stricken existence endured by …
