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001 00068346
003 DLC
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010 $a 00068346
020 $a0813529654 (alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
050 00 $aPS508.A8$bB65 2001
082 00 $a810.8/0895/0904$221
245 00 $aBold words :$ba century of Asian American writing /$cedited by Rajini Srikanth and Esther Y. Iwanaga.
260 $aNew Brunswick, N.J. :$bRutgers University Press,$cc2001.
300 $axxiv, 442 p. ;$c26 cm.
500 $aIncludes indexes.
505 8 $aMachine 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.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$xAsian American authors.
650 0 $aAsian Americans$xLiterary collections.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$y20th century.
650 0 $aAsian Americans$xBiography.
700 1 $aSrikanth, Rajini.
700 1 $aIwanaga, Esther Yae,$d1945-
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy022/00068346.html