TY - BOOK AU - Bloom,Harold TI - Asian-American writers T2 - Bloom's modern critical views SN - 9781604134018 (hardcover : acid-free paper) AV - PS 153 .A84 A84 2009 PY - 2009/// CY - New York PB - Chelsea House KW - American literature KW - Asian American authors KW - History and criticism KW - Asian Americans KW - Intellectual life KW - Asian Americans in literature N1 - 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 ER -