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Tables of Contents for Asian American Literature
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
vii
6
Ishmael Reed
Preface
xiii
Introduction
1
15
AUTOBIOGRAPHY, MEMOIR, AND NONFICTION ESSAY
16
50
Frank Chin (b. 1940)
Rendezvous
16
5
The Old Woman and Her Dumpling
21
2
The Woman who Makes Swell Doughnuts
23
3
Maxine Hong Kingston (b. 1940)
The Making of More Americans
26
14
Amy Tan (b. 1952)
Mother Tongue
40
5
Traise Yamamoto (b. 1961)
Different Silences
45
6
Connie Ching So (b. 1964)
The Color Yellow: Working Class Asian American Women and Feminism
51
15
FICTION
66
233
Sui Sin Far (b. 1867-1914)
The Americanizing of Pau Tsu
66
9
Toshio Mori (b. 1910-1980)
1936
75
6
Bienvenido Santos (b. 1911)
Quicker with Arrows
81
22
Carlos Bulosan (b. 1913-1956)
The Romance of Magno Rubio
103
16
Hisaye Yamamoto (b. 1921)
Las Vegas Charley
119
15
Diana Chang (b. 1934)
Falling Free
134
13
Lonny Kaneko (b. 1939)
Nobody's Hero
147
10
Bharati Mukherjee (b. 1940)
The Management of Grief
157
14
Jeffery Paul Chan (b. 1942)
Sing Song Plain Song
171
15
Janice Mirikitani (b. 1942)
Spoils of War
186
16
Jessica Hagedorn (b. 1949)
The Blossoming of Bongbong
202
14
Darrell H.Y. Lum (b. 1950)
Primo Doesn't Take Back Bottles Anymore
216
4
O. Wini Terada (b. 7)
Intermediate School Hapai
220
15
R.A. Sasaki (b. 1952)
First Love
235
11
Sylvia Watanabe (b. 1952)
A Spell of Kona Weather
246
6
Fae Myenne Ng (b. 1956)
Backdaire
252
9
Carol Roh-Spaulding (b. 1962)
Waiting for Mr. Kim
261
12
T.C. Huo (b. ?)
Those Years
273
7
Robert Ji-Song Ku (b. 1964)
Leda
280
8
Monique Thuy-Dung Truong (b. 1968)
Kelly
288
11
POETRY
299
104
Lawson Fusao Inada (b. 1938)
Legends from Camp
299
18
Woon Ping Chin (b. 1945)
The Naturalization of Camellia Song
317
3
In My Mother's Dream
320
2
Seven Vietnamese Boys
322
1
Russell Leong (b. 1950)
The Country of Dreams and Dust
323
32
Vince Gotera (b. 1952)
Alan Valeriano Sees a Lynch Mob
355
2
Aswang
357
1
Dance of the Letters
358
1
Fighting Kite
359
2
Vietnam Era Vet
361
2
Marilyn Chin (b. 1955)
How I Got That Name
363
3
A Break in the Rain
366
1
Elegy for Chloe Nguyen
367
2
Kimiko Hahn (b. 1955)
Resistance: A Poem on Ikat Cloth
369
11
Cathy Song (b. 1955)
The Youngest Daughter
380
2
Easter: Wahiawa, 1959
382
2
Tribe
384
3
Myung Mi Kim (b. 1957)
Into Such Assembly
387
2
A Rose of Sharon
389
2
Li-Young Lee (b. 1957)
The Cleaving
391
12
DRAMA
403
47
Wakako Yamauchi (b. 1924)
The Music Lessons
403
47
Alternate Table of Contents by Theme
450
3
Selected Bibliography
453
4
Index of Author Names, Titles, and First Lines of Poems
457
2
Acknowledgments
459