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Asian American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of Asian descent. Since the 1970s, Asian American literature has grown from an emerging category to an established tradition [1] with numerous works becoming bestsellers [2] and winning mainstream awards, including the Pulitzer Prize [3] and the ...
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Asian American Literature (3 vol. 2008) excerpt and text search; Japanese American National Museum. Encyclopedia of Japanese American History: An A-To-Z Reference from 1868 to the Present (2nd ed. 2000) Kim, Hyung-Chan, ed. Dictionary of Asian American History (1986) 629pp; online edition
This is a list of Asian American writers, authors, and poets who have Wikipedia pages. ... Elaine H. Kim, author of Asian American Literature: An Introduction to the ...
The 1970s saw further progress. Playwright Frank Chin's play, The Chickencoop Chinaman (1971) became the first play by an Asian American to be produced as a major New York production. Maxine Hong Kingston won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1976 for The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts.
In “The Legend of Auntie Po,” Shing Yin Khor uses watercolors and folklore to bring alive a late-19th century Sierra Nevada logging camp, where some of the
His full length novel, Confessions of a Number One Son: The Great Chinese American Novel, was written in the early 1970s, but was not published until nearly four decades later (2015) by Calvin McMcmillin, a literary scholar specializing in Asian American literature.
In The Know’s Justin Chan explores what it means to be Asian American amid anti-Asian discrimination in a brutally honest personal essay. Despite increasing racism, being Asian American during ...
The Asian American Literature Festiva l is making a return, the Asian American Literature Festival Collective said in a statement. It will take place Sept. 14-22 — but without the Smithsonian's ...