Transnational Asian American literature : sites and transits / edited by Shirley Geok-lin Lim [and others].

Table of Contents: “…Davis -- The Poetics of Liminality and Misidentification: Winnifred Eaton's me and Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior / Katherine Hyunmi Lee -- Nation, Immigrant, Text: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee / Srimati Mukherjee -- Kimiko's Hahn's "Interlingual Poetics" in Mosquito and Ant / Robert Grotjohn -- "Composed of Many Lenghts of Bone": Myung Mi Kim's Reimagination of Image and Epic / Josephine Hock-Hee Park -- A Way in the World of an Asian American Existence: Agha Shahid Ali's Transimmigrant Spacing of North America and India/Kashmir / Maimuna Dali Islam -- Writing Otherwise than as a "Native Informant": Ha Jin's Poetry / Zhou Xiaojing.…”

The art of memoir / Mary Karr. by Karr, Mary

Table of Contents: “…Caveat emptor -- Welcome to my chew toy -- The past's vigor -- The truth contract twixt writer and reader -- Why not to write a memoir: Plus a pop quiz to protect the bleeding & box out the rigid -- A voice conjures the human who utters it -- Don't try this at home: The seductive, narcissistic count -- Sacred carnality -- How to choose a detail -- Hucksters, the deluded, and big fat liars -- Interiority and inner enemy: Private agonies read deeper than external whammies -- On finding the nature of your talent -- The visionary Maxine Hong Kingston -- Dealing with beloveds (on and off the page) -- On information, facts, and data -- Personal run-ins with fake voices -- On book structure and the order of information -- The road to hell is paved with exaggeration -- Blind spots and false selves -- Truth hunger: The public and private burning of Kathryn Harrison -- Old-school technologies for the stalled novice -- Major reversals in Cherry and Lit -- Why memoirs fail -- An incomplete checklist to stave off dread -- Michael Herr: Start in Kansas, end in Oz -- Against vanity: In praise of revision.…”

The art of memoir / Mary Karr. by Karr, Mary

Table of Contents: “…Caveat emptor -- Welcome to my chew toy -- The past's vigor -- The truth contract twixt writer and reader -- Why not to write a memoir : plus a pop quiz to protect the bleeding & box out the rigid -- A voice conjures the human who utters it -- Don't try this at home : the seductive, narcissistic count -- Sacred carnality -- How to choose a detail -- Hucksters, the deluded, and big fat liars -- Interiority and inner enemy : private agonies read deeper than external whammies -- On finding the nature of your talent -- The visionary Maxine Hong Kingston -- Dealing with beloveds (on and off the page) -- On information, facts, and data -- Personal run-ins with fake voices -- On book structure and the order of information -- The road to hell is paved with exaggeration -- Blind spots and false selves -- Truth hunger : the public and private burning of Kathryn Harrison -- Old-school technologies for the stalled novice -- Major reversals in Cherry and Lit -- Why memoirs fail -- An incomplete checklist to stave off dread -- Michael Herr : start in Kansas, end in Oz -- Against vanity : in praise of revision.…”
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Challenges of the writing life / TVOntario.

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Selves in dialogue : a transethnic approach to American life writing / edited by Begoña Simal.

Table of Contents: “…Self and Nation in Franklin's Autobiography and Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior; 3. Ethnic Authorship and the Autobiographical Act: Zitkala-a, Sui Sin Far, and the Crafting of Authorial Identity; 4. …”
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Queering women's and gender studies / edited by Begoña Crespo, Isabel Moskowich and Carolina Núñez Puente.

Table of Contents: “…Queer as odd: Language, literature and culture as crossroads / Begoña Crespo, Isabel Moskowich -- Female abstract thinking: The use of abstract style by late modern English women scientists / Leida Maria Monaco -- Uses of conditionals in the work of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century female scientists: Applying quantitative methods to the study of female discourse in the Coruña Corpus / Luis Puente Castelo -- De la perspectiva etnográfica al análisis crítico del discurso: Investigación en un grupo de mujeres ecuatorianas / Esperanza Morales-López -- Masculinidades alternativas na literatura chinés-americana: Maxine Hong Kingston e Gish Jen / Carolina Soria Somoza -- La mujer deseada y deseosa en Diez, de Juan Emar / Sonia Rico Alonso -- Legal aliens? …”
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Diasporic Chineseness after the rise of China : communities and cultural production / edited by Julia Kuehn, Kam Louie, David Pomfret. by Louie, Kam, Pomfret, David M., 1973-, Kuehn, Julia

Table of Contents: “…Residual Chineseness after the Rise of China / Ien Ang -- Twenty-Three Years in Migration, 1989-2012: A Writer's View and Review / Ouyang Yu -- Globe-Trotting Chinese Masculinity: Wealthy, Worldly, and Worthy / Kam Louie -- Textual and Other Oxymorons: Sino-Anglophone Writing of War and Peace in Maxine Hong Kingston's Fifth Book of Peace / Shirley Geok-lin Lim -- The Autoethnographic Impulse: Two New Zealand Chinese Playwrights / Hilary Chung -- The Provocation of Dim Sum; or, Making Diaspora Visible on Film / Rey Chow -- Performing Bodies, Translated Histories: Ang Lee's Lust, Caution, Transnational Cinema, and Chinese Diasporas / Dristina Demaria -- Dancing in the Diaspora: "Cultural Long-Distance Nationalism" and the Staging of Chineseness by San Francisco's Chinese Folk Dance Association / Sau-ling C. …”
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Redefining American literary history / edited by A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff and Jerry W. Ward, Jr.

Table of Contents: “…. -- Canonical and noncanonical texts : a Chicano case study / Juan Bruce-Novoa -- Puerto Rican literature in the United States : stages and perspectives / Juan Flores -- Chinese American women writers : the tradition behind Maxine Hong Kingston / Amy Ling -- Twelve Asian American writers : in search of self-definition / Shirley Geok-lin Lim -- Three nineteenth-century American Indian autobiographers / A. …”

Stories my country told me. [producer/director, Tim May].

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Mulan's legend and legacy in China and the United States / Lan Dong. by Dong, Lan, 1974-

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On anger : race, cognition, narrative / by Sue J. Kim. by Kim, Sue J.

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Transnationalism and the Asian American heroine : essays on literature, film, myth and media / edited by Lan Dong.

Table of Contents: “…Sunita Peacock -- Translating mother's tongue(s) and traveling bodies: palimpsest and diaspora in Maxine Hong Kingston's The woman warrior / Pei-Ju Wu.…”

The Vintage book of American women writers / edited and with an introduction by Elaine Showalter.

Table of Contents: “…Le Guin -- Adrienne Rich -- Sylvia Plath -- Annie Proulx -- Joyce Carol Oates -- Maxine Hong Kingston -- Amy Tan -- Jhumpa Lahiri.…”

Charlie Chan is dead : an anthology of contemporary Asian American fiction / edited and with an introduction by Jessica Hagedorn ; with a preface by Elaine Kim.

Table of Contents: “…Gonzalez -- Film noir / Jessica Hagedorn -- Afterbirth / Kimiko Hahn -- The water faucet vision / Gish Jen -- (excerpt from) The floating world / Cynthia Kadohata -- (excerpt from Tripmaster Monkey) Twisters and shouters / Maxine Hong Kingston -- (excerpt from) Itsuka / Joy Kogawa.…”

Writing women's lives : an anthology of autobiographical narratives by twentieth century American women writers / edited and with an introduction by Susan Cahill.

Table of Contents: “…Ann Cornelisen (1926- ) -- Maya Angelou (1928- ) -- Maureen Howard (1930- ) -- Mary Mebane (1933- ) -- Shirley Abbott (1934- ) -- Joan Didion (1934- ) -- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1934- ) -- Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston (1934- ) -- Audre Lorde (1934-1992) -- Kate Millett (1934- ) -- Vivian Gornick (1935- ) -- Joyce Johnson (1935- ) -- Lucille Clifton (1936- ) -- Jane O'Reilly (1937- ) -- Maxine Hong Kingston (1940- ) -- Diane Glancy (1941- ) -- Nikki Giovanni (1943- ) -- Nancy Mairs (1943- ) -- Annie Dillard (1945- ) -- Patricia Hampl (1946- ) -- Dorothy Allison (1949- ).…”

Jo's girls : tomboy tales of high adventure, true grit, and real life / edited by Christian McEwen.

Table of Contents: “…Le Guin -- From Sula / Toni Morrison -- In the night / Jamaica Kincaid -- Adventures of the dread sisters / Alexis de Veaux -- Gorilla, my love / Toni Cade Bambara -- Woman, man, and trousers / Nina Newington -- Johnnieruth / Becky Birtha -- From Allegra Maud Goldman / Edith Konecky -- From The woman warrior : memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts / Maxine Hong Kingston -- Lizzie Higgins / Nancy Brooks Brody -- Horsegirl / Elizabeth Rose Campbell -- From The member of the wedding / Carson McCullers -- The child who loved raods / Cora Sandel -- From Lives of girls and women / Alice Munro -- From Crews / Maria Hinojosa -- From Glimpses of fifty years : the autobiography of an American woman / Frances Willard -- Tommy, the unsentimental / Willa Cather -- Drummer / Bia Lowe -- From sacred country / Rose Tremain -- From The cavalry maiden / Nadezhda Durova -- From Orlando / Virginia Woolf -- From Stone butch blues / Leslie Feinberg -- Ruthy and Edie / Grace Paley -- Al-Dawwára / Barbara Nimri Aziz -- Into the woods / Gail B. …”

A resource guide to Asian American literature / edited by Sau-ling Cynthia Wong and Stephen H. Sumida.

Table of Contents: “…Balce -- When heaven and Earth changed places and Child of war, woman of peace, by Le Ly Hayslip / Viet Thanh Nguyen -- Clay walls, by Ronyoung Kim -- The woman warrior : memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts, by Maxine Hong Kingston / Patricia P. Chu -- Obasan, by Joy Kogawa / Marie Lo -- The coffin tree, by Wendy Law-Yone / Tamara C. …”

Stories my country told me. [producer/director, H.O. Nazareth].

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American passages. Oregon Public Broadcasting ; writer/producer, Ryan L'epicier.

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Stories my country told me. [producer, Frederick Baker].

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