LITERATURES OF THE ASIAN DIASPORA

 

A FOCUS GRANT PROJECT in

Comparative Literature at Penn State

 

Other Resources and Suggested Reading

(This is a list in progress.  Suggestions and additions are welcome. 

Contact Reiko Tachibana <rxn6@psu.edu>.)

Theoretical Contexts 

Barkan, Elazar and Marie Denise Shelton, eds.  Borders, Exiles, Diasporas Stanford: Stanford UP, 

    1998.

 

Bhabha, Homi K.  “Cultures In-Between.”  Questions of Cultural Identity.  Ed. Stuart Hall and Paul du Gay.  

    London: Routledge, 1996. 53-61.

---.  The Location of Culture London: Routledge, 1994.

---.  Nation and Narration.  London: Routledge, 1990.

 

Brah, Avtar.  "Diaspora, Border and Transnational Identities."  Cartographies of Diaspora.  London: Taylor & 

    Francis, 1996.  178-210.

 

Chow, Rey.  Writing Diaspora:  Tactics of Intervention in Contemporary Cultural Studies.  Bloomington:  

    Indiana UP, 1993.

 

Clifford, James.  Diasporas.” Cultural Anthropology 9 (1994): 302-38.

 

Cohen, Robin.  Global Diasporas: An Introduction.  Seattle: U of Washington P, 1997.

 

Damrosch, David, April Alliston and Djelal Kadir, eds. Longman Anthology of World Literature.  2 vols., each 

    in multiple parts.  New York:  Longman, forthcoming early 2004.

 

Dharwadker, Vinay, ed.  Cosmopolitan Geographies: New Locations in Literature and Culture. New York: 

    Routledge, 2001.

 

Dirlik, Arif.  "The Asia-Pacific in Asian American Perspective." What is in a Rim?  Critical Perspectives on the 

    Pacific Region Idea.  Ed. Arif Dirlik.  Boulder, CO:  Westview Press, 1993.  305-329.

 

Early, Gerald, ed.  Lure and Loathing: Essays on Race, Identity, and the Ambivalence of Assimilation New 

    York: Allen Lane and Penguin Press, 1993.

 

Fanon, Frantz.  Black Skin, White Masks Trans. Charles Lam Markmann.  London: Pluto, 1986.

 

George, Rosemary MarangolyThe Politics of Home: Post-Colonial Locations and Twentieth-Century 

    Fiction.  Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996.

 

Gourdine, AngelettaThe Difference Place Makes: Gender, Sexuality and Diaspora Identity. Columbus: 

    Ohio State UP, 2003.

 

Hagedorn, Jessica.  An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction.  New York: Penguin, 1993.

 

Hall, Stuart.  “Cultural Identity and Diaspora.” Contemporary Postcolonial Theory: A Reader.  Ed. Padmini  

    Mongia. London: Arnold, 1996.  110-21.

---.  “Minimal Selves.”  Identity: The Real Me; Post-Modernism and the Question of Identity. Ed. Luisa 

    Appignanesi. London: ICA, 1987.

 

Hassan, Wail S.  "World Literature in the Age of Globalization: Reflections on an Anthology."  College 

    English 63 (2000): 38-47.

 

Hirabayashi, Lane, et al., eds.  New Worlds, New Lives: Globalization and People of Japanese Descent in the 

    Americas and From Latin America in Japan.  Stanford, CA:  Stanford UP, 2002. 

 

Kim, Elaine.  "Preface."  Charlie Chan is Dead.  Ed. Jessica Hagedorn.  New York:  Penguin, 1993.  vii-xiv.

 

LaPorte, Nicole.  "New Era Succeeds Years of Solitude."  The New York Times.  January 4, 2003, B7.

 

Lopez, Alfred J.  Posts and Pasts:  A Theory of Postcolonialism.  Albany: State U of New York P, 

    2001. (selections)

 

Marcais, Dominique.  Literature on the Move: Comparing Diasporic Ethnicities in Europe and the Americas.  

    Heidelberg: C. Winter, 2002.

 

Mishra, Sudesh“Diaspora Criticism.”  Introducing Criticism at the 21st Century Ed. Julian Wolfreys

    Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2002. 13-36.

 

Ong, Aihwa.  Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality.  Durham:  Duke UP, 1999.

 

Radhakrishnan, RDiasporic Mediations: Between Home and Location.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 

    1996.

 

Russell, Elizabeth, ed.  Caught Between Cultures: Women, Writing & Subjectivities. Amsterdam: Rodopi

    2002.

 

Safran, William. “Diasporas in Modern Societies: Myths of Homeland and Return.” Diaspora 1 (1991): 

    83-99.

 

Said, Edward W.  Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient.  New York: Random House, 1979.

 

Seyhan, Azade.  Writing Outside the Nation.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 2001.

 

Spickard, Paul.  "Who Is an Asian?  Who is a Pacific Islander?"  The Sum of Our Parts:  Mixed-Heritage 

    Asian Americans.  Ed. Teresa Williams-León and Cynthia L. Nakashima.  Philadelphia:  Temple UP, 

    2001.  13-24.

 

Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty.  “Diasporas Old and New: Women in the Transnational World.”  

    Textual Practice 10 (1996): 245-69.

---.  “How to Read a ‘Culturally Different’ Book.”  Colonial Discourse / Postcolonial Theory.  Eds. Francis 

    Barker, Peter Hulme, and Margaret Iversen. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1994.  126-50. 

 

Tachibana, Reiko.  Narrative as Counter-Memory: A Half-Century of Postwar Writing in Germany and 

    Japan.  State U of New York P, 1998.

---.  "Beyond East and West:  Tawada Yoko and Levy Hideo."  PAJLS 3 (2002):  23-37.

 

Takaki, Ronald.  A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America.  New York:  Back Boy Books, 1994.

---.  Strangers from a Different Shore.  1989.  New York: Back Bay Books, 1989.

 

Thornton, Michael C., and Harold Gates.  "Black, Japanese, and American: An Asian American Identity 

    Yesterday and Today."  The Sum of Our Parts: Mixed-Heritage Asian Americans.  Ed. Teresa     

    Williams-León and Cynthia L. Nakashima.  Philadelphia:  Temple UP, 2001. 93-105.  

 

Tse, Ludy.  "Ethnic Identity Development and the Role of the Heritage Language."  DAI 58.5 (1997): 1554.

 

Wallace, Molly.  "A Bizarre Ecology:  The Nature of Denatured Nature."  ISLE (Interdisciplinary Studies in

    Literature and Environment) 7.2 (2000), 137-153.

 

The Asian Diaspora and its Diversities.

 

Anderson, Walter T.  "Voices / Who Are We?  Rules of Identity Change as Borders Fade."  Asian Week

    August 12, 1999, p. 5, cited in Williams-León and Nakashima, p. 59.

 

Ang, Ien.  "Can One Say No to Chineseness?  Pushing the Limits of the Diasporic Paradigm."  Boundary 2 

    (1998): 223-42.

 

Bennett, Bruce.  A Sense of Exile: Essays in the Literature of the Asia-Pacific Region.  Nedlans: U of 

    Western Australia Centre for Studies in Australian Literature, 1988.

 

Bharucha, Nilufer E. and Vilas Sarang eds.  Indian English Fiction 1980-1990: An Assessment.  Delphi: BR 

    Pub., 1994. 

 

Bloom, Harold ed. and intro.  Asian-American Writers.  Philadelphia: Chelsea House Pub., 1999.

 

Bow, Leslie.  Betrayal and Other Acts of Subversion: Feminism, Sexual Politics, Asian American Women's 

    Literature.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 2001.

 

Butcher, Maggie edThe Eye of the Beholder: Indian Writing in EnglishLondon: Commonwealth Institute, 

    1983.

 

Cheung, King-kok, ed.  An Interethnic Companion to Asian American Literature.  Cambridge: Cambridge 

    UP, 1997.

 

Chan, Kwok Bun.  "A Family Affair:  Migration, Dispersal, and the Emergent Identity of the Chinese 

    Cosmopolitan."  Diaspora 6.2 (1997), 195-213.

 

Chan, Sucheng.  Asian Americans:  An Interpretive History.  New York:  Twayne Publishers, 1991.

 

Chin, Frank et al. eds.  Aiiieeeee! An Anthology of Asian American Writers. Washington, DC: Howard UP, 

    1974.

 

Chiu-Rinaldi, Fabiana.  "China Latina." In Re/collecting Early Asian America.  Ed. Josephine Lee, Imogene L. 

    Lim, and Yuko Matsukawa.  Philadelphia:  Temple University Press, 2002.  174-183.

 

Chow, ReyWriting Diaspora: Tactics of Intervention in Contemporary Cultural Studies. Bloomington: Indiana 

    UP, 1993. (selections)

 

Chuh, Kandice and Karen Shimakawa.  Orientations:  Mapping Studies in the Asian Diaspora.  Durham:  

    Duke UP, 2001.

 

Crane, Ralph J. and Radhika Mohanram eds.  Shifting Continents/ Colliding Cultures.  Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2000.
 
Dave, Shilpa.  "Mapping Asian American Voices in Literature and the Arts."  Contemporary Literature 42 (2001): 656-63.
 

Davis, Rocío G. and Sämi Ludwig, eds.  Asian American Literature in the International Context: Readings on 

    Fiction, Poetry and PerformanceMünster: Lit, 2002.

---.  Transcultural Reinventions: Asian American and Asian Canadian Short-Story Cycles. Toronto: TSAR, 

    2001.

 

Dinh, Linh, ed.  Night, Again: Contemporary Fiction from Vietnam.  New York:  Seven Stories P, 1996.

 

Dubs, H. H.  "The Chinese in Mexico City in 1635."  Far Eastern Quarterly, vol. 50 (1942), 387-89.

 

Feng, Peter X.  Identities in Motion: Asian American Film and Video. Durham: Duke UP, 2002.

 

Field, Norma.  "The Cold War and Beyond in East Asian Studies."  PMLA 117.5 (2002): 1261-66.

---.  "Texts of Childhood in Inter-Nationalizing Japan."  Text and Nation: Cross-Disciplinary Essays on 

    Cultural and National Identities.  Ed. Garcia-Moreno-Laura and Peter Pfeiffer. Columbia, SC: Camden 

    House, 1996.  143-72. 

 

Gosh, Amitav“The Diaspora in Indian Culture.” Public Culture 2 (1989): 73-78.

 

Grice, Helena.  Negotiating Identities: An Introduction to Asian American Women's Writing. Manchester: 

    Manchester UP, 2002.

 

Hogan, Patrick Colm.  Colonialism and Cultural Identity: Crises on Tradition in the Anglophone Literatures of 

    India, Africa and the Caribbean.  Albany: SUNY Press, 2000.

 

Hu-Dehart, Evelyn, ed.  Across the Pacific: Asian Americans and Globalization.  1999.  Philadelphia:  Temple 

    UP, 2000.  

--- and Lane Hirabayashi, eds.  Special issue of Amerasia (topic: "Asians in the Americas:  Transculturations 

    and Power") 28.2 (February 2003).

---.  “From Area Studies to Ethnic Studies:  The Study of the Chinese Diaspora in Latin 

    America.”  Asian Americans: Comparative and Global  Perspectives.  Ed. Shirley Hune et al. Pullman:     

    Washington State UP, 1991.  5-16.

---.  "Immigrants to a Developing Society:  The Chinese in Northern Mexico, 1875-1932."  

    Journal of Arizona History, 21 (1980), 275-307.

 

Hune, Shirley et al. eds.  Asian Americans: Comparative and Global Perspectives. Pullman: Washington State 

    UP, 1991.

 

Ishihara, Toshi.  "Karen Tei Yamashita's Through the Arc of the Rain Forest: Nature's Text as Pilgrimage."  

    Studies in American Literature, The American Literature Society of Japan 34 (1997): 59-77.

 

Kain, Geoffrey, ed.  Ideas of Home: Literature of Asian Migration.  East Lansing: Michigan State UP, 1997.

 

Kim, Elaine. Asian American Literature: An Introduction to the Writings and Their Social Context

    Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1982.

 ---, et al, eds.   Echoes Upon Echoes.  Asian American Writers' Workshop, 2003.

---Writing Self Writing Nation.  Berkeley:  Third Woman P, 1994.

 

Kizaki, Satoko.  The Phoenix Tree:  And Other Stories.  Trans.  Carol A Flath.  New York:  Kodansha 

    International, 1993.
---.  The Sunken Temple.  Trans.  Carol A. Flath.  New York:  Kodansha International, 1994.

 

Lach, Donald F.  Asia in the Making of Europe. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1965. (selections)

 

Lai, Him Mark, Cenny Lim, and Judy Yung.  Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel 

    Island  1910-1940.  1980.  Seattle: U of Washington P, 1991.

  

Leonard, George J. edThe Asian Pacific American Heritage: A Companion to Literature and Arts.  New 

    York: Garland Pub., 1999.

 

Lee, Josephine, Imogene L. Lim, and Yuko Matsukawa, eds.  Re/Collecting Early ASian America.  Temple 

    University Press, 2002.

 

Lee, Rachel C.  "Global-Local Discourse and Gendered Screen Fictions in Karen Tei Yamashita's Through 

    the Arc of the Rain Forest."  The Americas of Asian American Literature: Gendered Fictions of Nation and 

    Transnation.  Princeton: Princeton U P, 1999.  106-138.

---.  "Asian American Cultural Production in Asian-Pacific Perspective."  Boundary 2 26.2 

    (1999), 231-54.

 

Lesser, Jeffrey.  Searching for Home Abroad: Japanese Brazilians and Transnationalism.  Durham: Duke UP, 

    2003. 

 

Linger, Daniel Touro.  No One Home: Brazilian Selves Remade in Japan.  Stanford:  Stanford UP, 2001.

 

Lim, Shirley Geok-lin and Amy Ling, eds.  Reading the Literatures of Asian America.  Philadelphia: 

    Temple UP, 1992.

 

Ma, Sheng-Mei.  Immigrant Subjectivities in Asian American and Asian Diaspora Literatures.  Albany: State U 

    of New York P, 1998.

 

Marçais, Dominique.  Literature on the Move: Comparing Diasporic Ethnicities in Europe and the Americas.  

    Heidelberg: C. Winter, 2002.

 

Marx, Edward.  "'A Different Mode of Speech’: Yone Noguchi in Meiji America."  Re/collecting Early Asian 

    America.  Ed. Josephine Lee, Imogene L. Lim, and Yuko Matsukawa.  Philadelphia: Temple UP, 2002.  

    288-306.

 

McLeod, A.L., ed.  The Literature of Indian Diaspora: Essays in Criticism.  New Delhi: Sterling Pub. 

    Private Ltd., 2000.

 

McKeown, Adam.  Chinese Migrant Networks and Cultural Change: Peru, Chicago, and Hawaii 1900-1936.  

    Chicago: U of Chicago, 2001.

 

Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna, ed.  Indian Literature in English.  New York: Columbia UP, 2003.

 
Mukherjee, MeenakshiThe Perishable Empire:  Essays on Indian Culture.  Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000.
 

Nelson, Emanuel S.  Writers of the Indian Diaspora: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Westport: 

    Greenwood, 1993.

---.  Reworlding: The Literature of the Indian Diaspora.  Westport: Greenwood, 1992.

 

Ng, Fae Mayenne.  Bone.  New York: Hyperion, 1993.

 

Nguyen, Viet ThanhRace & Resistance: Literature & Politics in Asian AmericaOxford: Oxford UP, 2002.

 

Omi, Michael.  "Foreword."  The Sum of Our Parts:  Mixed-Heritage Asian Americans.  Ed. Teresa 

    Williams-León and Cynthia L. Nakashima.  Philadelphia:  Temple University Press, 2001.  ix-xiii.

 

Ondaatje, Michael.  Running in the Family.  New York: Vintage International 1993.

 

Ong, Aihwa and Donald M. Nonini, eds.  Ungrounded Empires:  The Cultural Politics of Modern Chinese 

    Transnationalism.  New York: Routledge, 1997.

 

Ozeki, Ruth.  My Year of Meats.  New York: Viking, 1998.
---.  All Over Creation.  New York: Viking, 2003.

 

Peepre, Mari.  "Cultural Resistance in Asian Diaspora Literature: A Case Study." Postcolonialism and Cultural 

    Resistance.  Ed. Jopi Nyman and John A Stotesbury. Joensuu, Finland: U of Joensuu P, 1999.  168-76.

 

Quintana, Alvina E.  "Performing Tricksters:  Karen Tei Yamashita and Guillermo Gomez-Peña."  Amerasia 

    28.2 (2002), 217-225.

 

Root, Maria P., ed.  Filipino Americans: Transformation and Identity.  Thousand Oaks:  Sage P, 1997. 

 

Roth, Joshua Hotaka.  Brokered Homeland: Japanese Brazilian Migrants in Japan.  Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 

    2002.

 

Rushdie, Salman.  Imaginary Homelands.  London: Granta Books, 1991.

--- and Elizabeth West.  The Vintage Book of Indian Writing 1947-1997.  London: 

    Vintage-Random, 1997.

 

Sureli, Sara.  Meatless Days.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1989.

 

Trudeau, Lawrence J., ed.  Asian American Literature: Reviews and Criticism of Works by American Writers 

    of Asian Descent.  Detroit: Gale Research, 1999.

 

Tsuda, Takeyuki.  Strangers in the Ethnic Homeland: Japanese Brazilian Return Migration in Transnational 

    Perspective.  New York: Columbia UP, 2003.

 

Verma, K.D.  The Indian Imagination.  New York: St. Martins, 2000.
 
Watanna, Onoto.  Miss Nume of Japan.  1899. Baltimore:  The Johns Hopkins UP, 1999.
---.  A Japanese Nightingale.  New York:  Harper & Brothers, 1901.
 
Wei-ming, Tu, ed. The Living Tree: the Changing Meaning of Being Chinese Today. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1991.
 

Williams-León, Theresa, Cynthia L. Nakashima and Michael Omi.  The Sum of Our Parts: Mixed Heritage 

    Asian Americans.  Philadephia: Temple UP, 2001.

 

Wong, Diane Yen-Mei et al., eds.  Making Waves: An Anthology of Writings by and about Asian American 

    Women.  Boston: Beacon Press, 1989.

 

Wong, Sau-ling., C.  "Denationalization Reconsidered: Asian American Cultural Criticism at a Theoretical 

    Crossroads." Amerasia 21: 1&2 (1995): 1-27.

---.  Reading Asian American Literature: From Necessity to Extravagance. Princeton: 

    Princeton UP, 1993.

 

Regional Paradigms I: the Americas.

 

A/ Canada:

 

Bissoondath, Neil.  A Casual Brutality.  Toronto: Macmillan, 1988.

---.  Digging Up the Mountains.  Toronto: Macmillan, 1985.

 

Kogawa, Joy.  A Choice of Dreams.  Toronto: Canadian, 1974.    

---.  Jericho RoadToronto: Canadian, 1977.

---.  Obasan.  New York: Anchor, 1981.

 

Ladoo, Harold Sonny.  Yesterdays.  Toronto: Anansi, 1974.

 

Mistry, Rohinton.  A Fine Balance.  New York: Knopf, 1996.

---.  Such a Long Journey.  New York: Knopf, 1991.

---. Tales from Firozsha Baag. Markham, Ont: Penguin, 1987

(US edition: Swimming Lessons and Other Stories from Firozsha Baag. New York, Penguin, 1989)

 

Ondaatje, Michael.  In the Skin of a Lion.  Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1987.

---.  Running in the Family.  Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1982.

 

Satzewich, Vic, ed.  Deconstructing a Nation: Immigrants, Multiculturalism, and Racism in the 1990s Canada

    Halifax, Canada: Fernwood Pub., 1992.

 

Selvadurai, ShyamFunny Boy: A Novel in Six Stories.  New Delphi: Penguin, 1994

 

B/ THE USA

 

Ali, Agha ShahidThe Half-Inch Himalayas.  Middletown: Wesleyan UP, 1987.

---.  A Nostalgist’s Map of America.  New York: Norton, 1991.

---.  A Walk Through the Yellow Pages.  Tucson: SUN/gemini, 1987.

 

Alexander, MeenaHouse of a Thousand Doors.  Washington, DC: Three Continents, 1988.

 

Beauregard, Guy.  "Reclaiming Sui Sin Far."  In Re/collecting Early Asian America:  Essays in Cultural History

    ed. Josephine Lee, Inogene L. Lim, and Yuko Matsukawa. Philadelphia:  Temple University Press, 2002.  

    340-354.

 

Birchall, Diana.  Onoto Watanna:  The Story of Winnifred Eaton (The Asian American Experience).  

    Champlain, U of Illinois P, 2001.

 

Bulosan, Carlos:  America Is in the Heart: Personal History.  1946.  Seattle: U of Washington P, 1973.

---.  "I Am Not a Laughing Man."  The Writer 59.5 (May 1946): 143-46.  

---.  The Laughter of My Father.  New York: Harcourt Brace, 1944.  

---.  "My Education."  Amerasia 6.1 (May 1979): 113-19.

---.  "Selected Letters of Carlos Bulosan, 1937-1955."  Amerasia 6.1 (May 1979): 143-54.

---.  "Silence."  Amerasia 6.1 (May 1979): 57-60.

---.  Sound of Falling Light: Letters in Exile.  Ed. Delores S. Feria.  Quezon City: U of the Phillipines, 1960.

---.  "The Thief."  Amerasia 6.1 (May 1979): 83-85.

---.  The Voice of Bataan.  New York: Coward-McCann, 1943.

---, ed.  Chorus for America.  Los Angeles: Wagon & Star, 1942.

 

Can, Lan.  Monkey Bridge.  New York: Viking, 1997.

 

Cha, Theresa Hak Kyung.  Dictee.  Berkeley: Third Woman Press, 1995.

 

Lee, Chang-raeA Gesture Life.  New York: Riverhead Books, 1999.

 

Chin, Frank.  "Backtalk."  Counterpoint: Perspectives on Asian America.  Ed. Emma Gee.  Los Angeles: 

    UCLA Asian American Studies Center, 1976.  556-557.  

---.  "Backtalk."  News of the American Place Theatre 4.4 (May 1972): 1-2.  

---.  The Chickencoop Chinaman and The Year of the Dragon: Two Plays.  Seattle: U of Washington 

    P, 1981.

---.  "Confessions of a Chinatown Cowboy."  Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars (Fall 1972): 58-70.

---.  Donald Duk. St. Paul, Minn.: Coffee House Press, 1991.

---.  "Don't Pen Us Up in Chinatown."  New York Times Oct. 8, 1972: 1,5.

---.  "Food for All His Dead."  Asian American Authors.  Ed. Kai-yu Hsu and Helen Palubinksas.  Boston: 

    Houghton Mifflin, 1972.  48-61.

---.  "Goong Hai Fot Choy."  19 Necromancers from Now.  Ed. Ishmael Reed.  New York: Doubleday, 

    1970.  31-54.

---.  "The Only Real Day."  Counterpoint: Perspectives on Asian America.  Ed. Emma Gee.  Los Angeles: 

    UCLA Asian American Studies Center, 1976.  510-524.

---.  "Riding the Rails with Chickencoop Slim."  Greenfield Review 6.1-2 (Spring 1977): 80-89.

---.  "Where I'm Coming From."  Bridge 4.3 (July 1976): 28-29. 

---.  "Yellow Seattle."  The Weekly (Feb. 1-7, 1978): 10-11.

---.  "Yes, Young Daddy."  Ethnic American Short Stories.  Ed. Katherine Newman.  New York: Washington 

    Square P, 1975.  187-200.

---, et al.  Aiiieeee! An Anthology of Asian American Writers.  Washington, D.C.: Howard UP, 1974.

---, and Jeffery Paul Chan.  "Racist Love."  Seeing Through Shuck.  Ed. Richard Kostelanetz.  New 

    York: Ballantine, 1972.  65-79.

---.  and Shawn Hsu Wong, eds.  Yardbird Reader.  vol. 3.  Berkeley: Yardbird, 1974.

 

Chu, Louis.  Eat a Bowl of Tea.  Seattle: U of Washington P, 1979.

 

Daniels, Roger.  Coming to America:  A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life.  New York:  

    Harper Perennial, 1991.

 

Delgado, Grace Pena.   Continental Crossroads:  Frontiers, Border and Transnaitonal History in the 

    U.S.-Mexican Border.  Duke Univ Press, 2003.

 

Duvrow, Gail Lee.  "Asian American Imprints on the Western Landscape."  Preserving Cultural Landscapes in 

    America.  Ed.  Arnold R Alanen, et al.  Baltimore, MD:  Johns Hopkins UP, 2000.  143-68.

 

Fenkl, Heinz Insu.  Memories of My Ghost Brother.  New York: Dutton, 1996.

---.  Shadows Bend.  Ace Books, 2000.

---. Ed.  Kori: The Beacon Anthology of Korean American Literature.  Boston: Beacon, 2001.

 

Fong, Lawrence Michael.  "Sojourners and Settlers.  The Chinese Experience in Arizona."  Journal of Arizona 

    History, 21 (1980): 227-56.

 

Foster, Jenny Ryun et al.  Century of the Tiger: One Hundred Years of Korean Culture in America.  Honolulu: 

    U of Hawai'i P, 2003.

 

Gardiner, C. Howard.  Pawns in a Triangle of Hate: The Peruvian Japanese and the United States.  Seattle: U 

    of Washington P, 1981.

 

Gotanda, Philip Kan. Yankee Dawg You Die.  New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1991.

 

Hagedorn, Jessica Tarahata. Dangerous Music.  San Francisco: Momo's Press, 1975.

---.  Dogeaters. New York: Pantheon Books, 1990.

---, ed.  Charlie Chan is Dead: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction.  New York, Penguin, 

    1993.

---.  "Smokey's Getting Old."  Greenfield Review 6, 1-2 (Spring 1977): 15.

 

Hayslip, Le Ly.  Child of War, Woman of Peace.  New York: Doubleday, 1993. 

---.  When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman’s Journey from War to Peace.  New 

    York: Doubleday, 1989.

 

Houston, Velina HasuTea.  New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1988.

 

Hu-DeHart, Evelyn.  "From Yellow Peril to Model Minority:  The Columbus legacy and Asians in America."  

    The New World 3 (1992):  7-8.

 

Hwang, David Henry.  M. Butterfly.  New York: New American Library, 1989.

 

Kadohata, Cynthia.  The Floating World.  New York: Ballantine, 1989.

 

Kim, Elaine. East to America:  Korean American Life Stories.  New York:  New P, 1996.

 

Keller, Nora Okja et al.  Yobo: Korean American Writing in Hawai'i.  Honolulu: U of Hawai'i P, 2003.

 

Kim, RonyoungClay Walls.  Sag Harbor, NY: Permanent Press, 1986.

 

Kingston, Maxine Hong.  China Men.  New York: Knopf, 1980.

---.  The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts.  New York: Random House, 1975.

 

Kogawa, Joy.  Obasan.  New York: Anchor Books, 1994.

 

Lai, H. Mark, Genny Lim, and Judy Yung eds.  Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel 

    Island 1910-1940.  Seattle: U of Washington P, 1991, 1980.

 

Law-Yone, Wendy.  The Coffin Tree.  Boston: Beacon Press, 1987.

 

Lee, Chang-rae.  Native Speaker.  New York: Riverhead, 1995. 

 

Lee, Gus.  China Boy.  New York: Dutton, 1991.

---.  Honor and Duty.  New York: Ballantine, 1994.

 

Lee, Kok LiangFlowers in the Sky.  Singapore: Heinemann, 1981.

 

Lee, Mary Paik.  Quiet Odyssey: A Pioneer Korean Woman in America.  Seattle: U of Washington P, 1990.

 

Leonard, Karen Isaksen.  Making Ethnic Choices: California’s Punjabi Mexican Americans.  Philadelphia: 

    Temple UP, 1992.

 

Lim, Paul Steven. “Flight.” Some Arrivals, But Mostly Departures. Quezon City: New Day, 1982.  1-26.

 

Mehta, VedDaddji/Mamaji.  London: Picador/Pan Books, 1984.

---.  The Ledge Between the Streams.  London: Picador/Pan Books, 1985.

---.  Vedi.  London: Picador/Pan Books, 1985.

Mirikitani, Janice, ed.  Ayumi: A Japanese American Anthology.  San Francisco:  Japanese American 

    Anthology Committee, 1980. 

 

Mori, Kyoko.  Shizuko's Daughter.  New York: H. Holt, 1993.

---.  Yokohama, California.  Seattle: U of Washington P, 1985.

 

Mukherjee, BharatiDarkness.  New York: Penguin Books, 1985. 

---.  The Holder of the World.  London: Chatto & Windus, 1993.

---.  Jasmine.  New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1989.

---.  The Middleman and Other Stories.  New York: Grove Press, 1988.

---.  Wife.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1975.

 

Murayama, Milton.  All I Asking for Is My Body.  San Francisco: Supa Press, 1975.

 

Nguyen, Ngok Bich, ed.  War and Exile: A Vietnamese AnthologyVietnamese PEN Abroad, 1989.

 

Okada, John.  No-No Boy.  Rutland, Vt.: Charles E. Tuttle, 1957.

 

Payant, Katherine B, et al, eds.  The Immigrant Experience in North American Literature: Carving Out a 

    Niche.  Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1999.

 

Polster, Karen L.  "Major Themes and Influences of the Poems at Angel Island."  Modern American Poetry.  

    30 March 2002. <http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/angel/polster.htm>

 

Rosca, NinotchkaState of War.  New York: Norton, 1988.

 

San Juan, E., Jr.  "Mapping the Boundaries:  The Filipino Writer in the U.S. A."  Journal of Ethnic Studies 19.1 

    (1991): 117-31.

 

Santos, Bienvenido.  “The Scent of Apples.”  You Lovely People.  Manila: Bookmark, 1991. 179-90.

---.  The Day the Dancers Came.  Manila: Bookmark, 1991.

 

Sidhwa, BapsiAn American Brat.  Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 1993.

 

Suleri, Sara.  Meatless Days.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1989.

 

Tan, Amy.  The Joy Luck Club.  New York: Ballantine Books, 1989.

---.  The Kitchen God’s Wife.  New York: Ballantine Books, 1991.

 

Tanaka, Ronald.  "I Hate My Wife."  Roots: An Asian American Reader.  Ed. Amy Tachiki et al.  Los 

    Angeles, UCLA Asian American Studies Center, 1971.  46. 

 

Uchida, Yoshiko.  Desert Exile: The Uprooting of a Japanese-American Family.  Seattle:  U of Washington P, 

    1982. 
---.  Journey to Topaz.  New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971.

 

U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, Annual Report:  Korean Immigration to the United States, 

    1903-1994.  Washington, D.C.:  U.S. Government Printing Office, 1995.     

    <http://www.columbia.edu/itc/sipa/U6210/ik105/chart.html>.

 

Wegars, Priscilla.  Polly Bemis: A Chinese American Pioneer.  Cambridge, Idaho: Backeddy, 2003.

 

Wong, Jade Snow.  Fifth Chinese Daughter.  New York: Harper, 1950.

 

Wong, Shawn Hsu.  "Good Luck, Happiness and Long Life."  Counterpoint: Perspectives on Asian America.  

    Ed. Emma Gee.  Los Angeles: UCLA Asian American Studies Center, 1976.

---.  Homebase.  New York: I Reed, 1979.

---.  "Letter to Kay Boyle."  Asian American Authors.  Ed. Kai-yu Hsu and Helen Palubinskas.  Boston: 

    Houghton Mifflin, 1972.  87.

 

Yamamoto, Hisaye.  "The Brown House."  Asian American Authors.  Ed. Kai-yu Hsu and Helen Palubinskas.  

    Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1972.  114-22.

---.  "Las Vegas Charley."  Arizona Quarterly 17.4 (Winter 1961): 303-22.  

---.  "The Legend of Miss Sasagwara."  Kenyon Review 12.1 (Winter 1950): 99-115.

---.  "Seventeen Syllables."  Ethnic American Short Stories.  Ed. Katherine Newman.  New York: Washington 

    Square P, 1975.  89-103.

---.  "The Shakers."  Frontier4.12 (Oct. 1953): 22.

---.  "Yoneko's Earthquake."  Furioso 6.1 (Winter 1951): 5-16.

 

Yamauchi, Wakako.  "The Boatman of River Toneh."  Amerasia 2.2 (Fall 1974): 203-7.    

---.  And the Soul Shall Dance.  Berkeley: California Theatre Council, 1982. Vol. 11/12, no. 3.

---.  "That Was All."  Amerasia 7.1 (Spring 1980): 115-20.

 

Yoshida, Jim, and Hosokawa, Bill.  The Two Worlds of Jim Yoshida.  New York: William Morrow, 1972.

 

Zia, Helen.  Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People.  New York: Farrar Straus & 

    Giroux, 2001. 

 

Zhou, Min and James V. Gatewood, eds.  Contemporary Asian America: A Multidisciplinary Reader.  New 

    York:  New York UP, 2000.

 

Subcategory: Internment of Japanese Americans and Canadians during World War II:

 

Higashide, Seiichi.  Adios to Tears:  Memoirs of a Japanese-Peruvian Internee in U.S. Concentration Camps.  

    Honolulu, 1993.

 

Okada, John.  No-No Boy.  Seattle: U of Washington P, 1981.

 

Sone, Monica.  Nisei Daughter.  Seattle: U of Washington P, 1979.

 

Miyamoto, Kazuo.  Hawai’i: The End of the Rainbow.  Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle, 1968.

 

Kadohata, Cynthia.  In the Heart of the Valley of Love.  New York: Viking, 1992.

 

Ikeda, David Stewart.  What the Scarecrow Said.  New York: Regan Books, 1997.

 

C/ South America

 

Colchie, Thomas.  A Whistler in the Nightworld:  Short Fiction from the Latin Americas.  New York:  Plume, 

    2002.

 

Dubs, Homer H., and Robert S. Smith.  "Chinese in Mexico City in 1635."  Far Eastern Quarterly 1 (1942):  

    387-89.

 

García, Cristina, and Jessica Murphy.  "The Nature of Inheritance" (interview).  Atlantic Unbound.  April 11, 

    2003. <http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/interviews/int2003-04-11.htm>. 

 

Hu-DeHart, Evelyn.  "Huagong and Huashang:  The Chinese as Laborers and Merchants in Latin America and 

    the Caribbean."  Amerasia Journal 28 (2002), 64-90.

---.  "Asian Latinos."  Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States.  Ed. Deena J. González. 

    Suzanne Oboler, et. al. New York:  Oxford UP, forthcoming 2003. 

 

Lee, Debbie Kay.  "When East Meets West:  An Examination of the Poetry of the Asian Diaspora in Spanish 

    America."  DAI 62.4 (2001): 1433

 

Murashige, Michael S.  "Karen Tei Yamashita."  Words Matter:  Conversations with Asian American Writers.  

    Ed. King-kok Cheung.  Honolulu:  U of Hawaii P, 2000.  320-42.

 

Rohter, Larry.  "2 Artists Follow Muses to Success in Argentina."  The New York Times 2 July 2 2003: E1.

 

Rustomji-Kerns, Roshni.  "Mirrha-Catarina de San Juan: From India to New Spain."  Amerasia.  28.2 

    (Feburary 2003): 29-36.

 

Stahl, Anna Kazumi.  Catástrofes naturales [Natural Disasters].  Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana, 1997.

---Flores de un solo dia.  [Flowers of one day] Buenos Aires: Seix Barral, 2002.

---.  "Natural Disasters" A Whistler in the Nightworld: Short Fiction from the Latin Americas.  

    Ed. Thomas Colchie.  New York: Penguin, 2002.  58-84.

 

Trudeau, Lawrence J., ed. "Karen Tei Yamashita," Asian American Literature: Reviews and Criticism of 

    Works by American Writers of Asian Descent.  Detroit: Gale, 1999.  508-517.  

 

Tsukamoto, Kyoko, perf. Gaijin, os caminhos da liberdade.  1980.  Dir. Tizuka Yamasaki.  Unifilms, 1981.

 

Yamashita, Karen TeiBrazil-Maru.  Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1992. 

---.  Circle K Cycles.  Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2001.

---.  Through the Arc of the Rain Forest.  Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1990.  

---.  Tropic of Orange.  Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1997.

 

Regional paradigms II: Africa.

 

Bagchi, Ganesh“Of Malice and Men.” Short East African Plays in English.  Ed. David Cook and Miles Lee.  

    London: Heinemann, 1968.  67-82.

Barnejee, Tilak.  "An Orissan Love Story" and "Poem."  Origin East Africa: A Makerere Anthology.  Ed. 

    David Cook.  London: Heinemann, 1965.  112-18.

 

Cook, David, ed.  Origin East Africa: A Makerere Anthology.  London: Heinemann, 1965

--- and David Rubaderi, eds.  Poems from East Africa.  London: Heinemann, 1971.

 

Coovadia, Imran. Weddings.  New York: Picador, 2001.

 

Dangor, AchmatKafka’s Curse.  New York: Pantheon Books, 1999.

 

Datta, Saroj“The Dead Bird.”  Poems from East Africa.  Ed. David Cook and David Rubaderi. London: 

    Heinemann, 1971.  35.

 

Dhillon, Pally Kijabe: An African Historical Saga: A Novel.  Fayetteville, NC: PREP Pub, 2000.

 

Essop, Ahmed.  The Hajji and Other Stories.  Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1978.

---.  Hajji Musa and the Hindu Fire-Walker.  Columbia, La, USA: Readers International, 1988.

 

Ganesh, KunjbehariStories about My People.  Durban: Ratna Pub., 1974.

 

Jha, RadhikaSmell: A Novel.  New York: Soho, 2001.

 

Karodia, Farida.  Other Secrets.  Johannesburg: Penguin, 2000.

 
Moodley, Praba.  The Heart Knows No Colour.  Cape Town: Kwela Books, 2003.
 

Naipaul, V.S.  A Bend in the River.  New York: Knopf, 1979.

---.  Half a Life.  New York: Knopf, 2001.

 

Nazareth, Peter.  The General Is Up.  Calcutta: Writers Workshop, 1984.

---.  In a Brown Mantle.  Nairobi: East African Literature Bureau, 1972.

 

Rooke, Daphne.  Ratoons. Boston: Houghton Mifflin in association with Ballantine Books, 1953.

 

Sam, Agnes.  Jesus is Indian and Other Stories.  Oxford: Heinemann Educational Pub., 1994.

 

Sarif, ShamimThe World Unseen.  London: Women’s, 2002.

 

Singh, Jagjit “Sweet Sc