The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Asian American Literature [3 volumes]
- ISBN-10
- 1567207367
- ISBN-13
- 9781567207361
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 1256
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008-12-30
- Publisher
- ABC-CLIO
- Author
- Guiyou Huang
Description
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.
Get the book
Similar books
-
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Asian American Literature and Culture
By Josephine LeeThe Oxford Encyclopedia of Asian American Literature and Culture will offer a comprehensive and in-depth survey of this important literary tradition, covering the span of Asian American literature from the late nineteenth-century large ...
-
Encyclopedia of Asian-American Literature
By Seiwoong OhWords thatshape a country (1998), Chong edited The Penguin Anthology of Stories by Canadian Women (1998). In 2009, Chong published Egg on Mao: The Story of an Ordinary Man Who Defaced anIconand Unmasked a Dictatorship, an account ofthe ...
-
Asian American Literature in Transition, 1850–1930: Volume 1
By Julia H. Lee, Josephine LeeonEuro-American-Australian film, media, and entertainment industries; and most importantly, her position of (re)iterating and interacting with the audience and the public – an authorial position that governed her and off-stage/screen ...
-
Asian American Literature in Transition, 1965-1996: Volume 3
By Asha Nadkarni, Cathy J. Schlund-Vials... the first major work of Asian American literary criticism, Elaine Kim's 1982 Asian American Literature: An Introduction to the Writings and Their Social Context, was key to providing the contours of Asian American literary studies ...
-
The Columbia Guide to Asian American Literature Since 1945
By Guiyou HuangAll his three novels are set on a plantation in Hawai'i , all focus on the Oyama clan , and all deal with cross ... Plantation Boy's narrator is Kiyoshi's older brother Toshio ( Tosh ) , who pursues several career possibilities but ...
-
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Asian American Literature and Culture: 1205-1790
By Josephine D. LeeThe Oxford Encyclopedia of Asian American Literature and Culture will offer a comprehensive and in-depth survey of this important literary tradition, covering the span of Asian American literature from the late nineteenth-century large ...
-
Encyclopedia of Asian American Folklore and Folklife [3 volumes]: [3 volumes]
By Jonathan H. X. Lee, Kathleen NadeauThis comprehensive compilation of entries documents the origins, transmissions, and transformations of Asian American folklore and folklife.
-
Asian American Literature in Transition, 1965–1996: Volume 3
By Asha Nadkarni, Cathy J. Schlund-VialsAs Viet Thanh Nguyen has noted, although Asian American critique often centers upon work that celebrates the ... This work has explored a range of questions: who gets to become the “model minority,” and how?31At whose expense is this ...
-
Asian American Literature in Transition, 1996-2020: Volume 4
By Betsy Huang, Victor Roman MendozaIn Panverse Three: Five Original Novellas of Fantasy and Science Fiction, edited by Dario Ciriello, 111–166. Concord, CA: Panverse, 2011. Liu, Ken, and Shelly Li. “Saving Face.” Crossed Genres Quarterly 1, no.
-
Asian Americans [3 Volumes]: An Encyclopedia of Social, Cultural, Economic, and Political History
By Edward J. W. Park, Xiaojian ZhaoThis is the most comprehensive and up-to-date reference work on Asian Americans, comprising three volumes that address a broad range of topics on various Asian and Pacific Islander American groups from 1848 to the present day.