But Still Like Air

Name: But Still Like Air
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ISBN: 9781566395380

ISBN-10: 1566395380

ISBN-13: 9781566395380

Edition: 1997

Authors: Velina Houston

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In this pathbreaking volume, Velina Hasu Houston gathers together eleven plays that speak in the "hybridized, unique American voices of Asian descent--and often dissent." These writers resist the bigotry that attempts to target them solely as people of color as well as the homogenizing tendencies of a multiculturalism that fails to recognize the varied make-up of Asian-America. Anthologized for the first time, these plays testify to the rich complexity of Asian-American experience while they also demonstrate the different styles and thematic concerns of the individual playwrights. What are Asian-American plays about? Family conflicts, sexuality, social upheaval, betrayal . . . the stuff of…

Book details

List price: $48.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Temple University Press
Publication date: 5/30/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 520
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.40" tall
Weight: 1.584



Foreword



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Talk-Story



Day Standing on Its Head



Kokoro (True Heart)



Dance of the Wandering Souls



Bondage



The Conversion of Ka'ahumanu



Cleveland Raining



Breaking Glass



Junk Bonds



Kimchee and Chitlins



A Language of Their Own



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