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810.8-W |
Summary |
These brief anthologies of ethnic American literature are ideal for ethnic, multicultural and American literature courses. They are designed to introduce undergraduates to the rich but often neglected literary contributions of established and newer ethnic writers to American literature. Each text is organized chronologically by genre and represent a wide range of literature. An introduction provides an historical overview and a celebration of the diversity within each ethnic group. It also addresses the general literary concerns students are likely to encounter in their readings. A seperate thematic table of contents provides the instructor with more flexibility in the classroom. - Excerpt from Amazon If you examine the landscape of a place called Asian America in the American mind, you will find its boundaries begin somewhere near a familiar stereotype and end with the truth being told in hidden corners of history - somewhere in the Sierra Nevada in a train tunnel built by nineteenth-century Chinese railroad workers in Donner Pass, by a restaurant kitchen door in a Chinatown alley, on a vast and dusty American plain of a now deserted World War II-era Japanese American internment camp, in a corner grocery store, or in an Alaskan cannery. Part of the story is heroic, legendary, and mythic, the other and more familiar part of the story is a media stereotype of fantasy, foolishness, and fakery. excerpt from the introduction |
Object Name |
Book |
Author |
Wong, Shawn, 1949- |
Subjects |
American literature--Asian American authors. Asian Americans--Literary collections. |
Title |
Asian American Literature: A Brief Introduction and Anthology |
Published Date |
1996 |
Physical Description |
xviii, 462 p. ; 24 cm. |
Catalog Number |
2014.007.029 |
Accession number |
2014.007 |
Publisher |
HarperCollins |
Collection |
Public Affairs Television |
Year Range from |
1996 |
Year Range to |
1996 |