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  • Growing Up Asian American in Young Adult Fiction

    Edited by Ymitri Mathison ...
    Series series Children's Literature Association Series
    Winner of the Children’s Literature Association’s 2020 Edited Book AwardContributions by Hena Ahmad, Linda Pierce Allen, Mary J. Henderson Couzelis, Sarah Park Dahlen, Lan Dong, Tomo Hattori, Jennifer Ho, Ymitri Mathison, Leah Milne, Joy Takako Taylor, and Traise YamamotoOften referred to as the model minority, Asian American children and adolescents feel pressured to perform academically and be ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • The Alice Behind Wonderland

    by Simon Winchester ...
    In the summer of 1858 in a garden behind Christ Church in Oxford Charles Dodgson--better known by his pseudonym Lewis Carroll--dressed the six-year-old Alice Liddell in ragamuffin's clothes and then snapped the camera's shutter. In The Alice Behind Wonderland Simon Winchester uses the famous photograph of Alice as the launching pad for an appreciative energetic and penetrating look at the ... Read more

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  • Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion

    by Jack Zipes ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    The fairy tale is arguably one of the most important cultural and social influences on children's lives. But until the first publication of Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion, little attention had been paid to the ways in which the writers and collectors of tales used traditional forms and genres in order to shape children's lives – their behavior, values, and relationship to society.As Jack ... Read more

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  • Chinglish

    by David Henry Hwang ...
    "Marvelous . . . the conceit is elegantly of a piece, yet Hwang is able to keep turning it in on itself to reveal new ambiguities, absurdities, subversions and paradoxes."—Chicago Reader"Hwang's plays collectively chart the evolving definition of what it is to be an 'American.' . . . His art has illuminated and anticipated our ongoing national story with a sensibility unlike any other in the ... Read more

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  • Bamboo Among The Oaks

    Contemporary Writing by Hmong Americans

    Edited by Mai Neng Moua ...
    Of an estimated twelve million ethnic Hmong in the world, more than 160,000 live in the United States today, most of them refugees of the Vietnam War and the civil war in Laos. Their numbers make them one of the largest recent immigrant groups in our nation. Today, significant Hmong populations can be found in California, Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Michigan, and Colorado, and St. Paul ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Children of 1965

    On Writing, and Not Writing, as an Asian American

    by Min Hyoung Song ...
    Since the 1990s, a new cohort of Asian American writers has garnered critical and popular attention. Many of its members are the children of Asians who came to the United States after the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 lifted long-standing restrictions on immigration. This new generation encompasses writers as diverse as the graphic novelists Adrian Tomine and Gene Luen Yang, the short ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Migrating Fictions

    Gender, Race, and Citizenship in U.S. Internal Displacements

    by Abigail G. H. Manzella ...
    Winner, 2021 Society for the Study of American Women Writers Book AwardWinner, 2021 CCCC Outstanding Book AwardMigrating Fictions analyzes the role of race, gender, and citizenship in the major internal displacements of the 20th century in history and in narrative. Surveying the particular tactics employed by the United States during the Great Migration, the Dust Bowl, the Japanese American ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Multicultural and Ethnic Children's Literature in the United States

    by Donna L. Gilton ...
    This book describes the history and characteristics of ethnic and multicultural children's literature in the U.S., as well as related materials published elsewhere. It relates in great detail the people, businesses, organizations, and institutions that create, disseminate, promote, critique, and collect these materials. Author Donna Gilton gives a detailed history of U.S. multicultural and ethnic ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture

    by Jennifer Ann Ho ...
    Series series Asian American Studies Today
    The sheer diversity of the Asian American populace makes them an ambiguous racial category. Indeed, the 2010 U.S. Census lists twenty-four Asian-ethnic groups, lumping together under one heading people with dramatically different historical backgrounds and cultures. In Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture, Jennifer Ann Ho shines a light on the hybrid and indeterminate aspects of race, ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • Asianfail

    Narratives of Disenchantment and the Model Minority

    by Eleanor Ty ...
    Series series Asian American Experience
    Eleanor Ty's bold exploration of literature, plays, and film reveals how young Asian Americans and Asian Canadians have struggled with the ethos of self-sacrifice preached by their parents. This new generation's narratives focus on protagonists disenchanted with their daily lives. Many are depressed. Some are haunted by childhood memories of war, trauma, and refugee camps. Rejecting an obsession ... Read more

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  • Consumption and Identity in Asian American Coming-of-Age Novels

    by Jennifer Ho ...
    Series series Studies in Asian Americans
    This interdisciplinary study examines the theme of consumption in Asian American literature, connection representations of cooking and eating with ethnic identity formation. Using four discrete modes of identification--historic pride, consumerism, mourning, and fusion--Jennifer Ho examines how Asian American adolescents challenge and revise their cultural legacies and experiment with alternative ... Read more

    $70.99 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