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Asian American Studies & Asian Diaspora

Wild Grass on the Riverbank by Hirome Ito (2015)

Wild Grass on the Riverbank Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Women's Studies. Translated from the Japanese by Jeffrey Angles. Set simultaneously in the California desert and her native Japan, tracking migrant children who may or may not be human, or alive... read more

Ban en Banlieue by Bhanu Kapil (2015)

Poetry. Cross-Genre. Asian American Studies. Bhanu Kapil's BAN EN BANLIEUE follows a brown (black) girl as she walks home from school in the first moments of a riot. An April night in London, in 1979, is the axis of this startling work of overlapping arcs and varying approaches. By the end of the night, Ban moves into an incarnate and untethered presence, becoming all matter-soot, meat...read more

Insomnia and the Aunt by Tan Lin (2011)

Insomnia and the Aunt by Tan Lin (2011) Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. Cross-Genre. Art. Asian American Studies. Tan Lin's INSOMNIA AND THE AUNT is an ambient novel composed of black and white photographs, postcards, Google reverse searches, letters, appendices, an index to an imaginary novel, reruns, and footnotes... read more

I Hotel by Karen Tei Tamashita (2010)

I Hotel Poetry. East Asian Studies. Translated from the Japanese by Jeffrey Angles. "I want to get rid of Kanoko/I want to get rid of filthy little Kanoko/I want to get rid of or kill Kanoko who bites off my nipples." "KILLING KANOKO is a powerful, long-overdue collection (in fine translation) of poetry from the radical Japanese feminist poet.... read more

Bountiful Instructions for Enlightenment by Minal Hajratwala (2015)

Poetry. South Asian American Studies. Buddhist Studies. BOUNTIFUL INSTRUCTIONS FOR ENLIGHTENMENT is the long-awaited debut collection of poetry by Minal Hajratwala, whose nonfiction book Leaving India earned four literary awards in 2009. Hajratwala's writing across many genres has always been rooted in poetry. This innovative book gathers poems and performance... read more

Naturalism by Wendy Xu (2015)

Naturalism Poetry. Women's Studies. Asian & Asian American Studies. "The tremendous pleasure of following the vectors of Wendy Xu's sharp and sparkling mind makes these poems transformative...Elegant. Outright dangerous. She is leading my sight across our terrific landscape. No, she's building it in me."-Solmaz Sharif
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Poor Anima by Khaty Xiong (2015)

Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Women's Studies. "Khaty Xiong writes a penumbra poetry. In POOR ANIMA, lyric and narrative intertwine to form a site where 'blacknesses trade spaces with each other, extensions/of shadow and smoke.' Xiong's poetry is also a sacrificial poetry, both in the sense that it knows and performs ritual, and in the sense...read more

Crevasse by Nicholas Wong (2015)

Poetry. LGBT Studies. Crevasse, Hong Kong-based writer Nicholas Wong's newest collection of poetry, starts with an epigraph from Maurice Merleau-Ponty that notes the impossibility of observing one's own physical body and, therefore, the necessity of a "second," "unobservable" body from which to view one's own. The poems in Crevasse seek to uncover the thread connecting these mutually observed and observing bodies...read more

The Forbidden Book: The Philippine-American War in Political Cartoons by A. Ignacio, E. de la Cruz, J. Emmanuel, and H. Toribio (2014)

Art. Asian & Asian American Studies. Filipino American Studies. Co-authored by Abe Ignacio, Enrique de la Cruz, Jorge Emmanuel, and Helen Toribio. THE FORBIDDEN BOOK uses over 200 political cartoons from 1898 to 1906 to chronicle a little known war between the United States and the Philippines... read more

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