Many-Mouthed Birds: Contemporary Writings by Chinese Canadians edited by Bennett Lee and Jim Wong-Chu [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]
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,
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,...
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...
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,...
A collection of oral histories of 38 diverse Korean Americans, from recent immigrants to third-generation Americans, who offer vastly different, sometimes startling perspectives as a result of their gender, economic background, education,...
A diverse collection of essays, excerpts, and short stories about growing up in the U.S., all authored by Americans of Asian descent that address such global issues as parent-child relationships,...
A collection of oral histories from first- to fourth-generation Asian Americans of Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, Indian, Southeast Asian, and Pacific Island ancestry. Asian Americans of diverse backgrounds reflect on their American...
An anthology of four plays by three Asian American women playwrights: 12-1-A by Wakako Yamauchi,
An anthology of diverse plays by six Asian American women playwrights:
The first published anthology of plays by Asian American writers features six diverse plays: Nuit Blanche: A Select View of Earthlings by Ping Chong, The Wash by Philip Kan Gotanda, Tenement Lover: no palm...