This Is All I Choose to Tell: History and Hybridity in Vietnamese American Literature by Isabelle Thuy Pelaud [in San Francisco Chronicle]
26 Dec, by in Adult Readers, Nonfiction, Repost, Southeast Asian, Southeast Asian American, Vietnamese American
What's wrong with this scenario? Robert Olen Butler's A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain wins the Pulitzer Prize despite "his portrayal of sweet and off-beat Vietnamese American caricatures,"...
This is a heavy tome, but it’s one of those impressive, erudite, must-have titles for anyone interested in Asian literature or literature in general. The Japanese were writing novels centuries before Don Quixote even chased his...
Volume 1: From Restoration to Occupation, 1868-1945
Volume 2: From 1945 to the Present
The two volumes together offer the most comprehensive overview of modern Japanese literature available in translation. Capturing the most turbulent period of Japan –...
You could build major muscles benching both volumes, but think of it as beefing up your theater knowledge way beyond New York’s Broadway (it ain’t called ‘The Great White Way’ for nothin’!). For both the theater...
Yes, it’s pricey, but if you ever wanted a one-stop primer on Asian American theater, this is definitely it. Besides, I – yes, me, yours truly, don’t be so surprised! – get a very sweet nod...
While not itself a graphic novel, Mechademia is an inevitable – and arguably necessary – byproduct of the manga and anime craze, imported from Japan and embraced by the West, having now established itself into the...
Here’s the updated second edition of what was already considered the definitive overview of modern Chinese literature in English translation, with representative writing from mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. With China poised to become a...
Eleven essays capture almost a half-century of Nobel Prize-winning Naipaul’s literary life. The final essay, “Two Worlds,” which he begins and ends by invoking Proust, is the lecture he gave when accepting the Nobel...
A slim introduction to Yasunari Kawabata, Yukio Mishima, Jun’ichiro Tanizaki, Ryotaro Shiba, and Kobo Abe by the much-recognized Japanese literature scholar who knows (or knew) them all.
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If you can look beyond the lit crit-ese (“acceptance of assimilation as a natural trajectory” or “to transcend hegemonic and racially prejudiced narratives of integration” blah blah blah), the 20...
Here's the updated, revised second edition of the bestselling academic classic. Put it together with the two-parter Sources of Japanese Tradition, Volume Two: 1600 to 2000, and you'll have the...
Hats off to Columbia University Press for being the über-publisher of translated titles year, including The Columbia History of Chinese Literature, which happens to be the first comprehensive...