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Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: PART 1
Introduction
The Voice That Passes through Me, An Interview with Meena Alexander 3
ESTHER IWANAGA AND RAJINI SRIKANTH
How My Stories Were Written 10
CARLOS BULOSAN
The Grandfather of the Sierra Nevada Mountains 14
MAXINE HONG KINGSTON
The Faintest Echo of Our Language 21
CHANG-RAE LEE
From Among the White Moon Faces:
An Asian American Memoir of Homelands 29
SHIRLEY GEOK-LIN LIM
From My Own Country:
A Doctor's Story of a Town and Its People in the Age of AIDS 38
ABRAHAM VERGHESE
From Where the Body Meets Memory 46
DAVID MURA
From Ono Ono Girl's Hula 52
CAROLYN LEI-LANILAU
59
LOUNG UNG
PART 2
Introduction
Absorbing and Being Absorbed by Poetry 69
EILEEN TABIOS
(Untitled) 77
FRANCES CHUNG
Filling the Gap 78
LAWSON FUSAO INADA
Thirty Years Under 80
MITSUYE YAMADA
Cincinnati 81
MITSUYE YAMADA
Smokey's Getting Old 83
JESSICA HAGEDORN
Recipe 85
JANICE MIRIKITANI
Why Is Preparing Fish a Political Act? 86
JANICE MIRIKITANI
Yellow Light 87
GARRETT HONGO
The Gift 89
LI-YOUNG LEE
Urban Love Songs 90
WING TEK LUM
The Chocolatier 93
TINA KOYAMA
Strawberries 94
ERIC CHOCK
This Room and Everything in It 96
LI-YOUNG LEE
From "In Search of Evanescence" 98
AGHA SHAHID ALI
Not Much Art
INDRAN AMIRTHANAYAGAM
Ceylon
INDRAN AMIRTHANAYAGAM
The Floral Apron
MARILYN CHIN
Kala Gave Me Anykine Advice Especially about Filipinos When I Moved
to Pahala
LOIS-ANN YAMANAKA
A Conservative View
CATHY SONG
The Founding of Yuba City 110
CHITRA DIVAKARUNI
Prints
CHRISTIAN LANGWORTHY
Reading the Poem about the Yew Tree
REETIKA VAZIRANI
News of the World
MEENA ALEXANDER
The Young of Tiananmen
MEENA ALEXANDER
They Don't Think Much about Us in America
ALFRREDO NAVARRO SALANGA
Walls
LUIS H. FRANCIA
Beetle on a String
VINCE GOTERA
Ch'onmun Hak
WALTER K. LEW
Zenith
BARBARA TRAN
The Bitterness of Bodies We Bear
BAO-LONG CHU
The Dead
Sister Play
LAN DUONG
From The Redshifting Web
ARTHUR SZE
Projections 130
CHRISTIAN LANGWORTHY
PART 3
FI CTw -N
Introduction
In That Valley Beautiful Beyond
GARY PAK
In the Land of the Free
SUI SIN FAR
The Story of a Letter
CARLOS BULOSAN
He Who Has the Laughing Face
TOSHIO MORI
Seventeen Syllables
HISAYE YAMAMOTO
From No-No Boy
JOHN OKADA
From Clay Walls
KIM RONYOUNG
Melpomene Tragedy
THERESA HAK KYUNG CHA
Railroad Standard Time
FRANK CHIN
Batista and Tania Aparecida Djapan
KAREN TEI YAMASHITA
The Valley of the Dead Air
GARY PAK
Our Lady of Kalihi
R. ZAMORA LINMARK
A New Beginning
JOHN YAU
Kim
JANA MONJI
Seeds
MONIQUE T. D. TRUONG
Fredo Avila
GINA APOSTOL
A Difference of Background
NURUL KABIR
Elvis of Manila
ERIC GAMALINDA
From Monkey King
PATRICIA CHAO
From A Cab Called Reliable
PATTI KIM
The Goddess of Sleep
GINU KAMANI
From The Necessary Hunger
NINA REVOYR
Western Music
LINH DINH
Chagrin
TAHIRA NAQVI
From The Foreign Student
SUSAN CHOI
PART 4
Introduction
Asian American Theater Awake at the Millennium
ROBERTA UNO
From Eye of the Coconut
JEANNIE BARROGA
From Assimilation
SHISHIR KURUP
Mask Dance
RICK SHIOMI
From Mua He Do Lual Red Fiery Summer
Lt THI DIEM THOY
From Three Lives
ALEX LUU
From Texas
JUDY SOO HOO
Appendix 1: Themes and Topics
Appendix 2: Ethnicity of Authors
Glossary
About the Contributors
About the Editors
Copyrights and Permissions
Index of Authors and Titles.

Edition Notes

Includes indexes.

Published in
New Brunswick, N.J

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
810.8/0895/0904
Library of Congress
PS508.A8 B65 2001

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxiv, 442 p. ;
Number of pages
442

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL6796600M
ISBN 10
0813529654
LCCN
00068346
Goodreads
3513892

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