Product Description: Providing comprehensive coverage of a variety of Asian American cultural forms, including folk tradition, literature, religion, education, politics, sports, and popular culture, this two-volume work is an ideal resource for students and general readers that reveals the historical, regional, and ethnic diversity within specific traditions...read more

Product Description: The essays in this collection discuss how comics and graphic narratives can be useful primary texts and learning tools in college and university classes across different disciplines. There are six sections: American Studies, Ethnic Studies, Women's and Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Genre Studies, and Composition, Rhetoric and Communication...read more

Product Description: This essential discussion of Amy Tan's life and works is a necessity for high school students and an enriching supplement for book club members.• Summarizes each of Tan's novels, offering a plot summary and a discussion of themes, settings, and characters• Provides questions that can be used to generate classroom and book club discussion• Includes sidebars to highlight interesting information about the author and her work• Offers a selected, general bibliography of print and electronic resources to facilitate further stud...read more