Asian-American Literature

[Anonymous No.20829727]

Literally what is some good Asian-American Literature?

In high school, all they had is read was Amy Tan. Which was fine, but I want to branch out.

[Anonymous No.20829737]

Is Maxine Hong Kingston any good?

[Anonymous No.20829865]

who cares? why don't you try reddit

[Anonymous No.20829878]

>>20829727
Tao lin

[Anonymous No.20829910]

>>20829865
Because I’m genuinely curious about Asian-American Literature and want to know if there’s any good authors out there.

[Anonymous No.20830136]

>>20829727
Moment in Peking
No-No Boy
The Chickencoop Chinaman & The Year of the Dragon
Taipei
A Little Life
Pachinko
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

[Anonymous No.20830140]

>>20829727
I stay up to date on the works of Josh Luna (Filipino if you are counting that as Asian)

[Anonymous No.20830263]

>>20829727
Why do asian women lust after white men so much? Its like if the bbc meme was real

[Anonymous No.20830279]

>>20829727
Me in the future. Gimme a few more years.

[Anonymous No.20830373]

>>20829727
I've heard people praise Ted Chiang (sci-fi), but I've never read him.

[Anonymous No.20831279]

>>20830136
Thanks man

[Anonymous No.20831284]

>>20830279
Good luck bro

[Anonymous No.20831287]

>>20829865
why don't you try out killing yourself?

[Anonymous No.20831290]

>>20830263
Yeah, is there any good lit dealing with WMAF ?

[Anonymous No.20831347]

Which book will get me most likely laid by an Asian-American women?

[Anonymous No.20831862]

>>20829737
Yeah, she’s good.

[Anonymous No.20832032]

>>20829737
It's interesting to me that the Library of America series hasn't published many Asian-American authors. That Maxine Hong Kingston book is the first one. I'm sure they'll publish more soon.

[Anonymous No.20832087]

>>20832032
>>20829737
I went through the Library of America series, and this is all they have:

>The Maxine Hong Kingston book already posted.
>Kingston also has a part of her Fifth Book of Peace in War No More: Three Centuries of American Antiwar & Peace Writing (No. 278)
>Ted Nakashima in Reporting World War II: American Journalism 1938–1944 (No. 77)
>Le Kim Dinh in Reporting Vietnam: American Journalism 1969–1975 (No. 105)
And it probably doesn't really count, but Lafcadio Hearn does a book in the series (No. 190), and an entry in American Fantastic Tales Vol. 1 (No. 196).

[Anonymous No.20832111]

>>20832032
>>20832087
https://www.loa.org/books/708-the-woman-warrior-china-men-tripmaster-monkey-other-writings
https://www.loa.org/books/511-war-no-more-three-centuries-of-american-antiwar-peace-writing
https://www.loa.org/books/115-reporting-world-war-ii-american-journalism-1938-1944
https://www.loa.org/books/129-reporting-vietnam-american-journalism-1969-1975


https://www.loa.org/books/299-american-writings
https://www.loa.org/books/308-american-fantastic-tales-terror-and-the-uncanny-from-poe-to-the-pulps

Surprised they haven't published any Pearl S. Buck

[Anonymous No.20832120]

>>20829737
>>20831862
>Kingston has received significant criticism for reinforcing racist stereotypes in her work and for fictionalizing traditional Chinese stories in order to appeal to Western perceptions of Chinese people.[6] She has also garnered criticism from female Asian scholars for her "over-exaggeration of Asian American female oppression".[7][8]

>Though Kingston's work is acclaimed by some, it has also received negative criticism, especially from some members of the Chinese American community. Playwright and novelist Frank Chin has severely criticized Kingston's The Woman Warrior, stating that Kingston deliberately tarnished the authenticity of Chinese tradition by altering traditional stories and myths to appeal to white sensitivities.[6] Chin has accused Kingston of "liberally adapting [traditional stories] to collude with white racist stereotypes and to invent a 'fake' Chinese-American culture that is more palatable to the mainstream."[15]

>Kingston commented on her critics' opinions in a 1990 interview in which she stated that men believe that minority women writers have "achieved success by collaborating with the white racist establishment," by "pander[ing] to the white taste for feminist writing... It's a one-sided argument because the women don't answer. We let them say those things because we don't want to be divisive."[16]

>However, several female Asian scholars have also criticized Kingston's work. Shirley Geok-lin Lim, a professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, stated that Kingston's "representations of patriarchal, abusive Chinese history were playing to a desire to look at Asians as an inferior spectacle".[17] Writer Katheryn M. Fong took exception to Kingston's "distortion of the histories of China and Chinese America" and denounced Kingston for her "over-exaggerated" depiction of Chinese and Chinese American cultural misogyny.[7] "The problem is that non-Chinese are reading [Kingston's] fiction as true accounts of Chinese and Chinese American history," wrote Fong, who noted that her own father "was very loving" towards her.[7][18]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxine_Hong_Kingston#Criticism

[Anonymous No.20832152]

>>20832087
There is a small number of notable Asian-American authors, but more importantly there has not been the same concerted political drive to assemble them into an "Asian-American" literary brand as there has been for African and Latin Americans. There are already volumes in LoA from black authors, such as Virginia Hamilton, who are arguably far less significant than Kingston or even Amy Tan. We might be seeing that change as Asian American cultural figures have started to realize they can tag along and gain quick power off the back of identity politics trends. Though, as with authors of any race whose work is still under copyright protection, there are probably issues between LoA and the publishers that lead to glaring omissions.

[Anonymous No.20832161]

https://www.buzzfeed.com/jarrylee/essential-asian-american-writers-you-need-to-be-reading#.wwAkdJJ7n

32 Essential Asian-American Writers You Need To Be Reading

>Alexander Chee
>Paul Yoon
>Amy Tan
>Hanya Yanagihara
>Jhumpa Lahiri
>Maxine Hong Kingston
>Porochista Khakpour
>Celeste Ng
>Cathy Park Hong
>Chang-rae Lee
>Viet Thanh Nguyen
>Anchee Min
>Mira Jacob
>Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
>Khaled Hosseini
>Lysley Tenorio
>Lisa See
>Justin Chin
>Paisley Rekdal
>Vu Tran
>Aimee Nezhukumatathil
>Matthew Salesses
>Thrity Umrigar
>Catherine Chung
>Patrick Rosal
>Bharati Mukherjee
>Jenny Zhang
>Oliver de la Paz
>Daniyal Mueenuddin
>Wang Ping
>Ocean Vuong
>Hieu Minh Nguyen

[Anonymous No.20832216]

>>20830136
Post authors:
>Lin Yutang
>John Okada
>Frank Chin
>Tao Lin
>Hanya Yanagihara
>Min Jin Lee
>Ocean Vuong

[Anonymous No.20832238]

>>20830140
Putang ina mo

[Anonymous No.20833141]

bump

[Anonymous No.20833204]

Most Asian-American Women’s lit is pic related summarized.

[Anonymous No.20833213]

>>20833204
as soon as she started bitching about capitalism i realized her bf is white

[Anonymous No.20833788]

>>20829727
>race based literature

[Anonymous No.20834534]

Is it true that Frank Chin is the father of the modern MRAsians from /r/aznmasculinity?

[Anonymous No.20834544]

>>20833204
What about this?

[Anonymous No.20834549]

>>20834544
Or this?

[Anonymous No.20834583]

>>20834534
Never heard of this guy before but he's based

[Anonymous No.20834720]

I actually really liked Jay Caspian Kang's The Loneliest Americans, a memoir about Asian-American identity.

Kang actually rejects most mainstream Asian-American identity politics, calling for it to be more class-based.

[Anonymous No.20834732]

>>20834720
I also liked Wesley Yang's The Soul of Yellow Folks, again, mostly memoir. The first essay is about Seung-Hui Cho (The Virginia Tech shooter) and how he actually can relate to him in some ways.