Asian-American writers / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom. - New ed. - New York : Chelsea House, c2009. - vii, 219 p. ; 25 cm. - Bloom's modern critical views . - Bloom's modern critical views. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-208) and index.

Introduction / Harold Bloom -- South Asian American literature / Ketu H. Katrak -- Postcolonialism, nationalism, and the emergence of Asian/Pacific American literatures / Stephen H. Sumida -- Amy Tan and Asian American literature / E.D. Huntley -- Chinese American women writers : the tradition behind Maxine Hong Kingston / Amy Ling -- Interpreter of maladies by jhumpa Lahiri / Purvi Shah -- Queer bodies and subaltern spectators : guerilla theatre, Hollywood melodrama and the Filipino (American) novel / Viet Thanh Nguyen -- Vietnamese American literature in English, 1963-1994 / Michele Janette -- Introduction to Asian North American identities beyond the hyphen / Eleanor Ty and Donald C. Goellnicht -- Asian Americans imagining Burma : Chang-Rae Lee's A gesture life and Wendy Law-Yone's Irrawaddy tango / Cheng Lok Chua -- Long a mystery and forever a memory : god vs. goddess in the ethnic novel / Guiyou Huang -- Beyond multicultural : cultural hybridity in the novels of Gish Jen / Jeffrey F.L Partridge.

9781604134018 (hardcover : acid-free paper) 1604134011 (hardcover : acid-free paper)

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American literature--Asian American authors--History and criticism.
Asian Americans--Intellectual life.
Asian Americans in literature.

PS 153 .A84 / A84 2009