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  • Two Dreams

    New and Selected Stories

    by Shirley Geok-lin Lim ...
    Two Dreams draws together the best of Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s short fiction from nearly three decades, most of it never before available in the United States, and includes important new work. The setting of these sometimes wryly funny, sometimes heartbreaking stories shifts from the war-torn, tradition-bound Malaysia of Lim’s childhood to the liberating, but confusing and often harsh United States ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Yokohama, California

    by Toshio Mori ...
    Series series Classics of Asian American Literature
    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 9780295961675 ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Migrant Ecologies

    Zheng Xiaoqiong's Women Migrant Workers

    by Zhou Xiaojing ...
    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    Migrant Ecologies investigates the ways in which Zheng Xiaoqiong’s poetry exposes the entanglements of migrant ecologies embedded within local and global networks of capital and labor. The author contends that women migrant workers in particular, as portrayed in Zheng’s poems, are the visible manifestation of the interconnections between the so-called “factories of the world” and slum villages-in ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Ecocriticism of the Global South

    by Senayon Olaoluwa, Benay Blend, Charles Dawson, Sharae Deckard, Christopher Lloyd de Shield, Dina El Dessouky, Eóin Flannery, Adrian Taylor Kane, Priya Kumar, James McElroy, Augustine Nchoujie, Zahra Parsapoor, Anthony Vital, Munazza Yaqoob, Zhou Xiaojing ...
    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    The vast majority of existing ecocritical studies, even those which espouse the “postcolonial ecocritical” perspective, operate within a first-world sensibility, speaking on behalf of subalternized human communities and degraded landscapes without actually eliciting the voices of the impacted communities. Ecocriticism of the Global South seeks to allow scholars from (or intimately familiar with) ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • Cities of Others

    Reimagining Urban Spaces in Asian American Literature

    by Xiaojing Zhou ...
    Series series Scott and Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies
    Asian American literature abounds with complex depictions of American cities as spaces that reinforce racial segregation and prevent interactions across boundaries of race, culture, class, and gender. However, in Cities of Others, Xiaojing Zhou uncovers a much different narrative, providing the most comprehensive examination to date of how Asian American writers - both celebrated and overlooked - ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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  • The Other Wes Moore

    One Name, Two Fates

    by Wes Moore ...
    Series series One World Essentials
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the governor of Maryland, the “compassionate” (People), “startling” (Baltimore Sun), “moving” (Chicago Tribune) true story of two kids with the same name: One went on to be a Rhodes Scholar, decorated combat veteran, White House Fellow, and business leader. The other is serving a life sentence in prison.The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • The Souls of Black Folk

    by W.E.B. Du Bois ...
    The Souls of Black Folk is a classic work of American literature by W. E. B. Du Bois. It is a seminal work in the history of sociology, and a cornerstone of African-American literary history.The book, published in 1903, contains several essays on race, some of which had been previously published in Atlantic Monthly magazine. Du Bois drew from his own experiences to develop this groundbreaking work ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Ebony and Ivy

    Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities

    by Craig Steven Wilder ...
    A groundbreaking exploration of the intertwined histories of slavery, racism, and higher education in America, from a leading African American historian.A 2006 report commissioned by Brown University revealed that institution's complex and contested involvement in slavery--setting off a controversy that leapt from the ivory tower to make headlines across the country. But Brown's troubling past was ... Read more

    $13.59 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • No-No Boy

    by John Okada, Frank Chin ...
    Series series Classics of Asian American Literature
    "No-No Boy has the honor of being among the first of what has become an entire literary canon of Asian American literature,” writes novelist Ruth Ozeki in her new foreword. First published in 1957, No-No Boy was virtually ignored by a public eager to put World War II and the Japanese internment behind them. It was not until the mid-1970s that a new generation of Japanese American writers and ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • This Generation

    Dispatches from China's Most Popular Literary Star (and Race Car Driver)

    by Han Han ...
    For those who follow Chinese affairs, Han Han is as controversial as they come—an irreverent singer, sports celebrity, and satirist whose brilliant blogs and books have made him a huge celebrity with more than half a billion readers. Now, with this collection of his essays, Americans can appreciate the range of this rising literary star and get a fascinating trip through Chinese culture.This ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • America Is in the Heart

    by Carlos Bulosan, Jeffrey Arellano Cabusao ...
    A 1946 Filipino American social classic about the United States in the 1930s from the perspective of a Filipino migrant laborer who endures racial violence and struggles with the paradox of the American dream, with a foreword by novelist Elaine CastilloPoet, essayist, novelist, fiction writer and labor organizer, Carlos Bulosan (1911-1956) wrote one of the most influential working class literary ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Techno-Orientalism

    Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media

    by David S. Roh, Betsy Huang, Greta A. Niu, Kenneth Hough, Jason Crum, Victor Bascara, Warren Liu, Seo-Young Chu0, Abigail De Kosnik1, Jinny Huh2, Steve Choe3, Se Young Kim4, Dylan Yeats5, Julie Ha Tran6, Kathryn Allan7, Aimee Bahng8, Douglas S. Ishii9, Tzarina T. Prater0, Catherine Fung1, Charles Park2 ...
    Series series Asian American Studies Today
    What will the future look like? To judge from many speculative fiction films and books, from Blade Runner to Cloud Atlas, the future will be full of cities that resemble Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, and it will be populated mainly by cold, unfeeling citizens who act like robots. Techno-Orientalism investigates the phenomenon of imagining Asia and Asians in hypo- or hyper-technological terms in ... Read more

    $28.09 USD