Asian-American Writing - A set of 3 Volumes

Asian-American Writing - A set of 3 Volumes

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Author: Somdutta Mandal
Publisher: Prestige Books
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 616
ISBN/UPC (if available): 817551096X

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This anthology in three volumes tries to break new ground by emphasizing upon the Asian American experience in all possible genres - interviews, creative writing, criticism, mass media. Comprising contributions from the American perspective, it attempts to provide a multifarious approach to this oeuvre.

With the emphasis on the concept of cultural pluralism in America, the particularities of individual cultural distinctions owing to race, class, gender, ethnicity, language, region and religion are amalgamated into the predominance of various hyphenated groups. Among them, Asian American literature reflects the Asian experience in the United States —right from the beginning of Chinese immigration in the mid-nineteenth century to the present. As both social document and mirror of memory, myth, dreams, and desire, Asian American literatures provides unique access to understanding the social history and sensibilities of this emerging minority group.

This anthology in three volumes tries to break new ground by emphasizing upon the Asian American experiences in all possible genres — interviews, creative writing, criticism, mass media. Comprising contributions from the American perspective along with the postcolonial Indian response, it attempts to provide a multifarious approach to this oeuvre.

Contents

VOL. 1

Introduction: Somdatta Mandal

CHAPTER I: WRITERS IN CONVERSATION
In Defense of the Real: Frank Chin in Dialogue

Creative Writer, Woman, Academic: Shirley Lim in Dialogue with Charlotte Templin

Home and Abroad: The Politics of Asian-American Representations: A Conversation with Makarand Paranjape

Locating Shirley Geok-lin Lim: an Interview by Nina Morgan

Experiencing from Within: Neila Seshachari in Conversation with Somdatta Mandal

CHAPTER II: THE CREATIVE URGE
Women Organizing for Change: A Personal Analysis

Image from a Stolen Camera: A Short Story and An Auto-ethnographic Recursion

Poems by Satyam S. Moorty

Poems by Purvi Shah

Poems by Trish Salah

Poems by Meena Alexander

A Star-Spangled Romance

Far From Family

Homage to Broward County: The End of the Littoral

Contributors

VOL. 2: Fiction: Novels & Short Stories

Home and Us’: Re-defining Identity in the South Asian Diaspora through the writings of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and Meena Alexander

Sisters of the Heart: Female Bonding in the Fiction of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Migration and Settlement in North America in Bharati Mukherjee’s fiction

Resisting Colonial and Postcolonial Hegemonies: Bapsi Sidhwa’s Ethno-Religious discourse

Living in "Amreeka": The Pakistani American Fictional Experience

South Asian Women Re-Write the American Novel: Meena Alexander, Bharati Mukherjee, Bapsi Sidhwa and the 'Bildungsroman'

Writing as Praxis: Maxine Hong Kingston’s Paralogical Narratives

The "Word" on the Ethnic and/or Feminist Assertion of Self: A Reading of Maxine Hong Kingston’s ‘The Woman Warrior’

Exotic Foreign Blooms: The Eaton Sisters and Their Children

"Pearl Harbour Echoes": Japanese American Internment Experience in Monica Sone and Hisaye Yamamoto

Heterogeneity, Hybridity, and Multiplicity in Volcano: Garrett Hongo’s Interventionist Poetics and the Intersectionality of Asian American Identity

Evoking the Exotic: Bharti Kirchner’s ‘Shiva Dancing’

Contributors

VOL. 3: Theory, Poetry and the Performing Arts

CHAPTER 1
The Writer as ‘Trishanku’: Indian Writing in a Foreign Space

Debating Expatriate Women’s Writing from the Indian Subcontinent

Historicizing the colonial, the Postcolonial and the Diaspora of India----A Method

Asian American "Postmodern Historiographic Metafiction": The Politics and Poetics of Generic Transgressions

CHAPTER II: POETIC SENSIBILITIES

From Immigrant "Uncertainty" to Positive "Identity": A Course Traversed in the Poems of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Sharmili Mazumdar, Meena Alexander and Purvi Shah

Text and context: Cross-Cultural Transformations in A K Ramanujan’s ‘The Black Hen’

The Challenge of Asian American Poetry: Reading "I" and "Other" Persona Poems in Cathy Song and David Mura

CHAPTER III: EXPLORING THE PERFORMING ARTS & MASS MEDIA

Asian American Theater and the Postmodern Context

Mira Nair’s "Mississippi Masala" and the South Asian Diaspora

Of ‘Soups’, ‘Salads’, ‘Chutneys’ and ‘Masalas’: The Asian American Film Experience

Contributors