Asian American Autobiographers

Author : Guiyou Huang
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2001-05-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313016769

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Asian American Autobiographers by Guiyou Huang Pdf

Asian Americans have made many significant contributions to industry, science, politics, and the arts. At the same time, they have made great sacrifices and endured enormous hardships. This reference examines autobiographies and memoirs written by Asian Americans in the twentieth century. Included are alphabetically arranged entries on 60 major autobiographers of Asian descent. Some of these, such as Meena Alexander and Maxine Hong Kingston, are known primarily for their writings; others, such as Daniel K. Inouye, are known largely for other achievements, which they have chronicled in their autobiographies. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and provides a reliable account of the autobiographer's life; reviews major autobiographical works and themes, including fictionalized autobiographies and autobiographical novels; presents a meticulously researched account of the critical reception of these works; and closes with a bibliography of primary and secondary sources. An introductory essay considers the history and development of autobiography in American literature and culture and discusses issues and themes vital to Asian American autobiographies and memoirs, such as family, diaspora, nationhood, identity, cultural assimilation, racial dynamics, and the formation of the Asian American literary canon. The volume closes with a selected bibliography.

Author : Rocio G. Davis
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824830922

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Begin Here by Rocio G. Davis Pdf

An analytically innovative work, Begin Here widens the current critical focus of Asian North American literary studies by proposing an integrated thematic and narratological approach to the practice of autobiography. It demonstrates how Asian North American memoirs of childhood challenge the construction and performative potential of national experiences. This understanding influences theoretical approaches to ethnic life writing, expanding the boundaries of traditional autobiography by negotiating narrative techniques and genre and raising complex questions about self-representation and the construction of cultural memory. By examining the artistic project of some fifty Asian North American writers who deploy their childhood narratives in the representation of the individual processes of self-identification and negotiation of cultural and national affiliation, this work provides a comprehensive overview of Asian North American autobiographies of childhood published over the last century. Importantly, it also attends to new ways of writing autobiographies, employing comics, blending verse, prose, diaries, and life writing for children, and using relational approaches to self-identification, among others.

Author : Guiyou Huang
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313314087

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Asian American Autobiographers by Guiyou Huang Pdf

Each entry provides biographical information, a discussion of major autobiographical works and themes, a review of the writer's critical reception, and primary and secondary bibliographies. The volume begins with an introductory overview of Asian American autobiography and closes with a selected, general bibliography of critical studies."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Rocio G. Davis
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780824895358

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Relative Histories by Rocio G. Davis Pdf

Relative Histories focuses on the Asian American memoir that specifically recounts the story of at least three generations of the same family. This form of auto/biography concentrates as much on other members of one’s family as on oneself, generally collapses the boundaries conventionally established between biography and autobiography, and in many cases—as Rocío G. Davis proposes for the auto/biographies of ethnic writers—crosses the frontier into history, promoting collective memory. Davis centers on how Asian American family memoirs expand the limits and function of life writing by reclaiming history and promoting community cohesion. She argues that identity is shaped by not only the stories we have been told, but also the stories we tell, making these narratives important examples of the ways we remember our family’s past and tell our community’s story. In the context of auto/biographical writing or filmmaking that explores specific ethnic experiences of diaspora, assimilation, and integration, this work considers two important aspects: These texts re-imagine the past by creating a work that exists both in history and as a historical document, making the creative process a form of re-enactment of the past itself. Each chapter centers on a thematic concern germane to the Asian American experience: the narrative of twentieth-century Asian wars and revolutions, which has become the subtext of a significant number of Asian American family memoirs (Pang-Mei Natasha Chang’s Bound Feet and Western Dress, May-lee and Winberg Chai’s The Girl from Purple Mountain, K. Connie Kang’s Home Was The Land of Morning Calm, Doung Van Mai Elliott’s The Sacred Willow); family experiences of travel and displacement within Asia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, which unveil a history of multiple diasporas that are often elided after families immigrate to the United States (Helie Lee’s Still Life With Rice, Jael Silliman’s Jewish Portraits, Indian Frames, Mira Kamdar’s Motiba’s Tattoos); and the development of Chinatowns as family spaces (Maxine Hong Kingston’s China Men, Lisa See’s On Gold Mountain, Bruce Edward Hall’s Tea that Burns). The final chapter analyzes the discursive possibilities of the filmed family memoir ("family portrait documentary"), examining Lise Yasui’s A Family Gathering, Ruth Ozeki Lounsbury’s Halving the Bones, and Ann Marie Fleming’s The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam. Davis concludes the work with a metaliterary engagement with the history of her own Asian diasporic family as she demonstrates the profound interconnection between forms of life writing.

Author : Rocío G. Davis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Asian Americans
ISBN : 0824870484

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Relative Histories by Rocío G. Davis Pdf

This work focuses the Asian American memoir that specifically recounts the story of at least three generations of the same family. This form of autobiography concentrates as much on other members of one's family as on oneself, generally collapses the boundaries conventionally established between biography and autobiography, and in many cases crosses the frontier into history, promoting collective memory.

Author : Guiyou Huang
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006-08-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 023150103X

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The Columbia Guide to Asian American Literature Since 1945 by Guiyou Huang Pdf

The Columbia Guide to Asian American Literature Since 1945

Author : Xiaojing Zhou,Samina Najmi
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780295802305

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Form and Transformation in Asian American Literature by Xiaojing Zhou,Samina Najmi Pdf

This critical anthology draws on current theoretical movements to examine the breadth of Asian American literature from the earliest to the most recent writers. Covering fiction, essays, poetry, short stories, ethnography, and autobiography, Form and Transformation in Asian American Literature advances the development of a theoretically informed, historically and culturally specific methodology for studying this increasingly complex field. The essays in this anthology probe into hotly debated issues as well as understudied topics, including the relations between Asian American and other minority American writings.

Author : Guiyou Huang
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1250 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008-12-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781567207361

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The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Asian American Literature [3 volumes] by Guiyou Huang Pdf

Asian American literature dates back to the close of the 19th century, and during the years following World War II it significantly expanded in volume and diversity. Monumental in scope, this encyclopedia surveys Asian American literature from its origins through 2007. Included are more than 270 alphabetically arranged entries on writers, major works, significant historical events, and important terms and concepts. Thus the encyclopedia gives special attention to the historical, social, cultural, and legal contexts surrounding Asian American literature and central to the Asian American experience. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and cites works for further reading, and the encyclopedia closes with a selected, general bibliography of essential print and electronic resources. While literature students will value this encyclopedia as a guide to writings by Asian Americans, the encyclopedia also supports the social studies curriculum by helping students use literature to learn about Asian American history and culture, as it pertains to writers from a host of Asian ethnic and cultural backgrounds, including Afghans, Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Filipinos, Iranians, Indians, Vietnamese, Hawaiians, and other Asian Pacific Islanders. The encyclopedia supports the literature curriculum by helping students learn more about Asian American literature. In addition, it supports the social studies curriculum by helping students learn about the Asian American historical and cultural experience.

Author : Paul John Eakin
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0299127842

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American Autobiography by Paul John Eakin Pdf

This is the first comprehensive assessment of the major periods and varieties of American autobiography. The eleven original essays in this volume do not only survey what has been done; they also point toward what can and should be done in future studies of a literary genre that is now receiving major scholarly attention. Book jacket.

Author : Shirley Lim
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 1592134513

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Transnational Asian American Literature by Shirley Lim Pdf

Examines the diasporic and transnational aspects of Asian-American literature and engages works of prose and poetry as aesthetic articulations of the fluid transnational identities formed by Asian-American writers.

Author : David Shih
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : American prose literature
ISBN : UOM:39015042635758

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Representation and Exceptionalism in the Asian American Autobiography by David Shih Pdf

Author : Guiyou Huang
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2003-06-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015059964653

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Asian American Short Story Writers by Guiyou Huang Pdf

Looks a the life and works of forty-nine Asian American short story writers.

Author : Betsy Huang,Victor Román Mendoza
Publisher : Asian American Literature in T
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108830843

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Asian American Literature in Transition, 1996-2020: Volume 4 by Betsy Huang,Victor Román Mendoza Pdf

This volume examines the concerns - political, literary, and identity-based - of contemporary Asian American literatures in neoliberal times.

Author : Kevin Kumashiro
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136572647

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Restoried Selves by Kevin Kumashiro Pdf

Restoried Selves: Autobiographies of Queer Asian / Pacific American Activists presents the first-person accounts of 20 activists—life stories that work against common stereotypes, shattering misconceptions and dispelling misinformation. These autobiographies challenge familial and cultural expectations and values that have traditionally forced queer Asian / Pacific Americans into silent shame because of their sexual orientation and/or ethnicity. Authors share not only their experiences growing up but also how those experiences led them to become social activists, speaking out against oppression. Many harmful untruths—or “stories”—about queer Asian-Pacific Americans have been repeated so often, they are accepted as fact. Restoried Selves: Autobiographies of Queer Asian / Pacific American Activists provides a forum for voices often ignored in academic literature to “re-story” themselves, addressing a range of experiences that includes cultural differences and values, conflicts between different generations in a family or between different groups in a community, and difficulties and rewards of coming out. Those giving voice to their stories through narrative and other writing genres include the transgendered and intersexed, community activists, youths, and parents. The stories told in Restoried Selves: Autobiographies of Queer Asian / Pacific American Activists reflect on: personal experiences—based on country of origin, educational background, religion, gender, and age populations served by activism, including the working poor, immigrants, adoptees, youth, women, and families different arenas of activism, including schools, governments, social services, and the Internet issues targeted by activism, including affirmative action, HIV/AIDS education, mental health, interracial relationships, and sexual violence institutions in need of change, including legal, religious, and educational entities and much more! Restoried Selves: Autobiographies of Queer Asian / Pacific American Activists is an essential read for academics and researchers working in Asian American studies, ethnic studies, gender studies, and queer studies, and for LGBTQ youth and their parents, teachers, and social service providers.

Author : Yuri Kochiyama
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Civil rights movements
ISBN : 0934052379

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Passing it on by Yuri Kochiyama Pdf

Cultural Writing. Asisan American Studies. PASSING IT ON is the account of an extraordinary Asian American woman who spoke out and fought shoulder-to-shoulder with African Americans, Native Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans, and Whites for social justice, civil rights, and prisoners and women's rights in the U.S. and internationally for over half a century. A prolific writer and speaker on human rights, Kochiyama has spoken at over 100 colleges and universities and high schools in the U.S. and Canada.