Product Description: "Lim's poems capture the spirit of California with beauty and insight."--Jon Parrish Peede, editor, Virginia Quarterly Review"Shirley Lim's poems sing with the defiance of Blake and Yeats, clapping hands 'for every tatter in our mortal dress...read more

Product Description: "Sister Swing" chronicles the growing up years of three sisters. It follows their transplant from a relatively sheltered life in Malaysia to the raw realities of the United States. It illuminates the complex relationships between the sisters, and gently but firmly explores the morals, values and mindsets of growing up Asian in a Western world...read more

Product Description: Transnational Asian America: Literary Sites and Transits examines the diasporic and transnational aspects of Asian American literature and asserts the importance of a globalized imaginary in what has been considered an ethnic subgenre of American literature...read more

Product Description: This issue fuses theoretical approaches and practical realities with its two featured symposiums of articles on Gerald Graff and teaching conflicts and on how to teach Spenser’s The Faerie Queene in a week.

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Product Description: Cultural Writing. Asian American Studies. TILTING THE CONTINENT is the first collection to bring to the American literary awareness the poetry, short stories, and personal essays of established, as well as new authors of Southeast Asian descent -- not only recent arrivals, but also second, third, and fourth-generation authors...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: INSTRUCTOR'S EDITION, INSTRUCTOR'S MANUAL INCLUDED

Product Description: This timely collection provides a critical transnational perspective on some of the complex cultural effects of emerging global capitalisms and modernities in the Asia Pacific region. Geographically, this vast territory encompasses Japan, the newly industrialized states of East Asia and China, the Southeast Asian countries, Australia, New Zealand, the South Sea Islands, and the Pacific coast of North America...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The eleven essays collected in this volume describe individual African American, Chicano and Chicana, Native American, Asian American, gay and lesbian, and white female experiences in academe. Representing a wide variety of fields and career paths in the profession, the authors explore topics such as marginalization, alienation, and persistent discrimination; the obstacles women and minorities face in advancing their careers, as well as strategies for overcoming those obstacles; the backlash against affirmative action; and the implications of gender, sexuality, race, and power in the classroom...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Written over the last decade, these poems include memories of the author's early childhood in Malaysia, immigration to America, and travel throughout the world, and affirmations of motherhood and maturity in the New World. From her background as a Malaysian Chinese later assimilated into Western culture, she has emerged with her own voice, combining bittersweet laughter and realistic affirmation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Describes Lim's childhood in Malaysia after her mother abandoned her family, and her journey into womanhood as an Asian American with professional, family, and cultural concerns

Product Description: The stories of Shirley Geok-lin Lim reflect the complex mosaic of her world and of her own personal journey as a woman and an Asian American. The setting of these sometimes wryly funny, sometimes heartbreaking stories, shifts from the war-torn, tradition-bound Malaysia of Lim's childhood to the liberating but confusing and often harsh United States of her childhood...read more

Describes Lim's childhood in Malaysia after her mother abandons her family, and her journey into womanhood as an Asian American with professional, family, and cultural concerns

Product Description: articulates the cultural dilemma facing post-colonial writers. Based upon Professor Lim's experiences observations and research these ten essays explore themes of nationalism secularization politics cultural pluralism and feminist theory...read more

Product Description: brings toge ther poems from three earlier Shirley Lim books; like the poet herself it somehow harmonizes differing elements into a satisfying whole. Chinese by ethnicity Malaysian by birth American by citizenship Lim reflects all those influences in her work...read more

Product Description: Presents a collection of essays that examines Asian American literature from the late 19th century up through the contemporary experimental drama of Ping Chong. This book addresses the work of writers with Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Filipino, East Indian, and Pacific Island ancestry...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Now at seventy-three volumes, this popular MLA series (ISSN 10591133) addresses a broad range of literary texts. Each volume surveys teaching aids and critical material and brings together essays that apply a variety of perspectives to teaching the text...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Collects short stories and poems by Asian American women, from Oriental, Indian, and Polynesian backgrounds