Asian American Literature

Bella Adams is a part-time lecturer in American Studies at Liverpool John Moores University.Author of Amy Tan, Contemporary World Writers Series (Manchester University Press, 2004).

This series provides accessible yet provocative introductions to a wide range of literatures. The volumes will initiate and deepen the reader's understanding of key literary movements, periods and genres, and consider debates that inform the past, present and future of literary study. Resources such as glossaries of key terms and details of archives and internet sites are also provided, making each volume a comprehensive critical guide.

Series PrefaceAcknowledgementsChronologyIntroductionSome Thoughts on Ethnicity and WritingA History of Asian American LiteraturesAsian American Canon FormationAbout this BookChapter 1 American Ways of Looking, 1880s-1920sContexts and IntertextsYan Phou Lee, When I was a Boy in China (1887)Winnifred Eaton and Edith Eaton, Selected Short Stories (1900-15)ConclusionChapter 2 We are America, 1930s-50sContexts and IntertextsCarlos Bulosan, America is in the Heart (1946) and Toshio Mori, Selected Short Stories (1949)Monica Sone, Nisei Daughter (1953), John Okada, No-No Boy (1957) and Hisaye Yamamoto, Selected Short Stories (1949-51)ConclusionChapter 3 Noise, Trouble and Backtalk, 1960s-70sContexts and IntertextsJade Snow Wong, Fifth Chinese Daughter (1950) and Louis Chu, Eat a Bowl of Tea (1961)Frank Chin, The Chickencoop Chinaman (1972), The Year of the Dragon (1974) and The Chinaman Pacific and Frisco R.R. Co. (1988)Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior (1976) and China Men (1980)ConclusionChapter 4 Between Worlds, the 1980sContexts and IntertextsJoy Kogawa, Obasan (1981)Maxine Hong Kingston, Tripmaster Monkey (1989) and David Henry Hwang, FOB (1979) and M. Butterfly (1988)Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club (1989)Bharati Mukherjee, Jasmine (1989) and Wendy Law-Yone, The Coffin Tree (1983)ConclusionChapter 5 Heterogeneity, Hybridity and Multiplicity, the 1990sContexts and IntertextsRefugee LiteraturesLan Cao, Monkey Bridge (1997)Sky Lee, Disappearing Moon Cafe (1990)Mei Ng, Eating Chinese Food Naked (1998)Chang-rae Lee, Native Speaker (1995)ConclusionConclusionStudent ResourcesGlossarySelected Electronic ResourcesGuide to Further ReadingIndex