Imagining America: Stories from the Promised Land edited by Wesley Brown and Amy Ling [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]
01 Mar, by in Adult Readers, Arab American, Black/African American, Fiction, Latina/o/x, Middle Eastern, Native American/First Nations/Indigenous Peoples, Pan-Asian Pacific American, Repost, Short Stories
A multicultural anthology of 37 short stories about immigration to and migration within the U.S., the so-called “Promised Land.” Contributing writers are of varied ethnic backgrounds, including Asian, African, Latino, Native American, Jewish, Middle...
A collection of short stories that celebrates the literary achievements of Asian American women writers. Included are the works of 29 writers who are of Chinese, Malaysian, Vietnamese, Korean, Filipino, Indian, Japanese,...
A collection of short stories and interviews, detailing the diverse journey of Asian Americans from their faraway homelands to new lives in this new country to which they traveled, or into which...
As the first major compilation that focuses on South Asian American and South Asian immigrant women in the U.S., this anthology offers a wide variety of short stories,...
A diverse collection of short stories from some of Canada’s leading Asian American voices, including Larissa Lai, Evelyn Lau, Sky Lee, and Denise Chong.
The Chinese phrase, “many-mouthed birds,” refers to someone who...
The anthology features 21 stories by first-generation North American women of South Asian descent, who have arrived in either Canada or the U.S. by way of South Asia, Africa, or the Caribbean....
The first collection of erotica created by writers of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Filipino, Thai, East Indian, Pakistani, and Amerasian descent, including essays, short stories, poems, drawings, and...
A ground-breaking collection of 73 authors, ranging from the established to up-and-comers, writing in all modes of poetry, including numerous works in nonstandard forms and dialects.
Founded in 1994, 
Cathy Song, 1982 winner of the prestigious 
Most likely the first major anthology of all-Asian American-written poetry, Breaking Silence presents the work of some 50 contributors, including such established writers as Jessica Hagedorn, Garrett Hongo, Joy Kogawa, David Mura, Cathy Song,...
Award-winning second poetry collection, about relationships between family and lovers.
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A lyrical first collection of poems that draws on such topics as Kono’s native Hawai'i, the legacy of Asian immigrant sugar cane plantation laborers, the Japanese internment crisis, and family obligations.
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An autobiographical exploration of memory and personal history, presented via a vast spectrum of mediums, including prose, poetry, descriptions of dreams, biography, family history in Korea, French translation exercises, photographs, handwritten notes, calligraphy, letters, and more....
A collection of works by 30 Asian American writers, both U.S.- and foreign-born, covering over 100 years of the Asian American presence in America, writing on such diverse subjects as immigration, sojourning, stereotypes, assimilation,...
Angel Island was the West Coast entry point for potential Asian immigrants and returning Asian Americans. An elaborate interrogation process kept people detained there, in limbo, for up to two years. In 1970, a park ranger...
Poetry collection by an award-winning, third-generation Japanese American. As a child, Inada was interned during World War II with his parents at Jerome Camp in Arkansas and Amache Camp in Colorado. In...
Award-winning second poetry collection, which draws on Hongo’s diverse background, filled with images of Hawaiian volcanoes, war-torn battlefields, a high school classroom, Chinatown back alleys, and California beaches.
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Poetry collection filled with imaginative, even quirky pieces, incorporating such diverse subjects as language, marriage, and Japanese folklore.
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Jade Snow Wong is the American-born fifth daughter of Chinese immigrants. Growing up in San Francisco’s Chinatown, Jade Snow must come to terms with two diverse worlds: a traditional household which strictly...
A collection of 15 autobiographical essays from leading Asian American voices, confronting racism, language, family, stereotypes, and other social and political issues. Contributors include such writers as Peter Bacho, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston,...