Asian American Autobiographers A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook

Name: Asian American Autobiographers A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook
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ISBN: 9780313314087

ISBN-10: 031331408X

ISBN-13: 9780313314087

Edition: 2001

Authors: Guiyou Huang, Shirley Geok-lin Lim

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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…

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List price: $83.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Publication date: 5/30/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 464
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.19" tall
Weight: 1.870
Language: English

Guiyou Huang is professor of English and dean of undergraduate studies and programs at St. Thomas University, Miami, Florida. He is the author of numerous books, including Whitmanism, Imagism, and Modernism in China and America.



Foreword



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Be/coming American



Meena Alexander (1951- )



Carlos Bulosan (1911-1956)



Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951-1982)



Nien Cheng (1915- )



Monlin Chiang (1886-1964)



Chiang Yee (1903-1977)



Cynthia L. Chou (1926- )



Chuang Hua (?)



Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (1956- )



Edith Maude Eaton (Sui Sin Far) (1865-1914)



Benny F. Feria (1911-1978)



Zulfikar Ghose (1935- )



Myrna Lakshmi Gill (1943- )



Han Suyin (Rosalie Chou) (1917- )



Phung Thi Le Ly Hayslip (1949- )



Garrett Hongo (1951- )



Bill Hosokawa (1915- )



Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston (1935- ) and James D. Houston (1934- )



Peter Hyun (1906-1993)



Daniel K. Inouye (1924- )



Younghill Kang (1903-1972)



Richard E. Kim (1932- )



Maxine Hong Kingston (1940- )



Joy Kogawa (1935- )



Helena Kuo (Kuo Ching-ch'iu) (1911- )



Li-Young Lee (1957- )



Mary Paik Lee (1900-1995)



Ling-Ai (Gladys) Li (ca. 1910- )



Janet Lim (ca. 1921- )



Shirley Geok-Lin Lim (1944- )



Alice P. Lin (1942- )



Aimee E. Liu (1953- )



Pardee Lowe (1905- )



Adeline Yen Mah (1937- )



Ved Parkash Mehta (1934- )



Dhan Gopal Mukerji (1890-1936)



Bharati Mukherjee (1940- )



David Mura (1952- )



Ilhan New (1895-1971)



Haing S. Ngor (ca. 1941-1996)



(Philip) Michael Ondaatje (1943- )



Induk Pahk (1896-1980)



No-Yong Park (1899-1976)



Winnifred Eaton Babcock Reeve (Onoto Watanna) (1875-1954)



Monica Sone (1919- )



Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto (1874-1950)



Sara Suleri (1953- )



Mai-Mai Sze (1910-1992)



George Takei (1937- )



Kathleen Tamagawa (1893-1979)



Hilary Tham (1946- )



Nguyen Thi Thu-Lam (1940- )



Yoshiko Uchida (1921-1992)



Katherine Wei (1930- )



Jade Snow Wong (1922- )



Rae Yang (1950- )



Laurence Michael Yep (1948- )



Jim Yoshida (1921- )



Yung Wing (1828-1912)



Selected Bibliography


Index


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