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Author : Shawn Wong
Release : 2005-04-01
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 282/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis American Knees by : Shawn Wong
Download or read book American Knees written by Shawn Wong. This book was released on 2005-04-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read about the movie, Americanese, based on Shawn Wong's book, at: http://www.americanesethemovie.com
Author : Jabari Asim
Release : 2008-12-21
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Book Rating : 76X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Whose Knees are These? by : Jabari Asim
Download or read book Whose Knees are These? written by Jabari Asim. This book was released on 2008-12-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takes a loving look at knees from the vantage point of a mother's lap.
Author : King-Kok Cheung
Release : 2017-02-18
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 771/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Chinese American Literature without Borders by : King-Kok Cheung
Download or read book Chinese American Literature without Borders written by King-Kok Cheung. This book was released on 2017-02-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book bridges comparative literature and American studies by using an intercultural and bilingual approach to Chinese American literature. King-Kok Cheung launches a new transnational exchange by examining both Chinese and Chinese American writers. Part 1 presents alternative forms of masculinity that transcend conventional associations of valor with aggression. It examines gender refashioning in light of the Chinese dyadic ideal of wen-wu (verbal arts and martial arts), while redefining both in the process. Part 2 highlights the writers’ formal innovations by presenting alternative autobiography, theory, metafiction, and translation. In doing so, Cheung puts in relief the literary experiments of the writers, who interweave hybrid poetics with two-pronged geopolitical critiques. The writers examined provide a reflexive lens through which transpacific audiences are beckoned to view the “other” country and to look homeward without blinders.
Author : Robert Ji-Song Ku
Release : 2013-09-23
Genre : Cooking
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 252/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Eating Asian America by : Robert Ji-Song Ku
Download or read book Eating Asian America written by Robert Ji-Song Ku. This book was released on 2013-09-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the ways our conceptions of Asian American food have been shaped Chop suey. Sushi. Curry. Adobo. Kimchi. The deep associations Asians in the United States have with food have become ingrained in the American popular imagination. So much so that contentious notions of ethnic authenticity and authority are marked by and argued around images and ideas of food. Eating Asian America: A Food Studies Reader collects burgeoning new scholarship in Asian American Studies that centers the study of foodways and culinary practices in our understanding of the racialized underpinnings of Asian Americanness. It does so by bringing together twenty scholars from across the disciplinary spectrum to inaugurate a new turn in food studies: the refusal to yield to a superficial multiculturalism that naively celebrates difference and reconciliation through the pleasures of food and eating. By focusing on multi-sited struggles across various spaces and times, the contributors to this anthology bring into focus the potent forces of class, racial, ethnic, sexual and gender inequalities that pervade and persist in the production of Asian American culinary and alimentary practices, ideas, and images. This is the first collection to consider the fraught itineraries of Asian American immigrant histories and how they are inscribed in the production and dissemination of ideas about Asian American foodways.
Author : Dee Brown
Release : 2012-10-23
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 146/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by : Dee Brown
Download or read book Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee written by Dee Brown. This book was released on 2012-10-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “fascinating” #1 New York Times bestseller that awakened the world to the destruction of American Indians in the nineteenth-century West (The Wall Street Journal). First published in 1970, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee generated shockwaves with its frank and heartbreaking depiction of the systematic annihilation of American Indian tribes across the western frontier. In this nonfiction account, Dee Brown focuses on the betrayals, battles, and massacres suffered by American Indians between 1860 and 1890. He tells of the many tribes and their renowned chiefs—from Geronimo to Red Cloud, Sitting Bull to Crazy Horse—who struggled to combat the destruction of their people and culture. Forcefully written and meticulously researched, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee inspired a generation to take a second look at how the West was won. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Dee Brown including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.
