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Asian American Autobiographers A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook
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Guiyou Huang
ISBN: 0-313-31408-X
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-31408-7
464 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 5/30/2001
List Price: $145.00 (UK Sterling Price: £100.95)
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Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: Asian Americans have made many significant contributions to industry, science, politics, and the arts. At the same time, they have made great sacrifices and endured enormous hardships. This reference examines autobiographies and memoirs written by Asian Americans in the twentieth century. Included are alphabetically arranged entries on 60 major autobiographers of Asian descent. Some of these, such as Meena Alexander and Maxine Hong Kingston, are known primarily for their writings; others, such as Daniel K. Inouye, are known largely for other achievements, which they have chronicled in their autobiographies.

Each entry is written by an expert contributor and provides a reliable account of the autobiographer's life; reviews major autobiographical works and themes, including fictionalized autobiographies and autobiographical novels; presents a meticulously researched account of the critical reception of these works; and closes with a bibliography of primary and secondary sources. An introductory essay considers the history and development of autobiography in American literature and culture and discusses issues and themes vital to Asian American autobiographies and memoirs, such as family, diaspora, nationhood, identity, cultural assimilation, racial dynamics, and the formation of the Asian American literary canon. The volume closes with a selected bibliography.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword by Shirley Geok-lin Lim
    Introduction by Guiyou Huang
    Meena Alexander by Ruby S. Ramraj
    Carlos Bulosan by John Jae-Nam Han
    Theresa Hak Kyung Cha by Leilani Nishime
    Nien Cheng by Cynthia F. Wong
    Monlin Chiang by Shuchen S. Huang
    Chiang Yee by Shuchen S. Huang
    Cynthia L. Chou by Shuchen S. Huang
    Chuang Hua by Wenying Xu
    Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni by Sonja H. Streuber
    Edith Maud Eaton (Sui Sin Far) by Shannon T. Leonard
    Benny F. Feria by Montye P. Fuse
    Zulfikar Ghose by Sharon C. Ramraj
    Lakshmi Gill by Harish Chander
    Han Suyin (Rosalie Chou) by John Jae-Nam Han
    Phung Thi Le Ly Hayslip by Michele Janette
    Garrett Hongo by Leilani Nishime
    Bill Hosokawa by Amy C. O'Brian
    Jeanne Wakatsuki and James D. Houston by Linda Trinh Moser
    Peter Hyun by Nikolas Huot
    Daniel K. Inouye by John Jae-Nam Han
    Younghill Kang by Seiwoong Oh
    Richard E. Kim by Montye P. Fuse
    Maxine Hong Kingston by Su-lin Yu
    Joy Kogawa by Craig Tapping
    Helena Kuo (Kuo Ching-Ch'iu) by Jean Amato
    Li-Young Lee by Zhou Xiaojing
    Mary Paik Lee by Anita Mannur
    Ling-Ai (Gladys) Li by Shuchen S. Huang
    Janet Lim by Harish Chander
    Shirley Geok-Lin Lim by Nina Morgan
    Alice P. Lin by Nikolas Huot
    Aimee E. Liu by Luchen Li
    Pardee Lowe by Linda Trinh Moser
    Adeline Yen Mah by Xiaoping Yen
    Ved Mehta by Harish Chander
    Dhan Gopal Mukerji by Sharon S. Ramraj
    Bharati Mukherjee by Barry Fruchter
    David Mura by Zhou Xiaojing
    Ilhan New by Seiwoong Oh
    Haing S. Ngor by Amy C. O'Brien
    (Philip) Michael Ondaatje by Elizabeth Fitzpatrick
    Induk Pahk by Seiwoong Oh
    No-Young Park by John Jae-Nam Han
    Winnifred Eaton Babcock Reeve (Onoto Watanna) by Lisa Botshon
    Monica Sone by Leela Kapai
    Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto by Rocio G. Davis
    Sara Suleri by Ruby S. Ramraj
    Mai-Mai Sze by Jean Amato
    George Takei by Shilpa Davé
    Kathleen Tamagawa by Shannon T. Leonard
    Hilary Tham by Zhou Xiaojing
    Nguyen Thi Thu-Lam by Michele Janette
    Yoshiko Uchida by Leela Kapai
    Katherine Wei by Xiaoping Yen
    Jade Snow Wong by Fu-jen Chen
    Rae Yang by Xiaoping Yen
    Laurence Michael Yep by Rocio G. Davis
    Jim Yoshida by Amy C. O'Brien
    Yung Wing by Floyd Cheung
    Selected Bibliography
    Index
About the Author: GUIYOU HUANG is Associate Professor of English at Kutztown University. His previous books include Whitmanism, Imagism, and Modernism in China and America (1997).
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