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American Knees

Literature & Fiction

Wong, Shawn

United States

University of Washington Press

Homebase is the coming of age story of Rainsford Chan in 1950s and '60s California. Rainsford is a fourth-generation Chinese American named after the town where his great-grandfather worked during the gold rush. Orphaned at fifteen, he attempts to claim America as his homebase, and his personal history is interwoven with dreams, stories, and letters of his family's life in America. Moving through time and place, the story allows the reader to discover the past as Rainsford does, to see the world through his eyes, and to learn the truth about the Chinese American experience.

Homebase: A Novel (Asian American Studies)

An Anthology of Chinese American and Japanese American Literature When the first volume of this collection of Asian American literature appeared in 1974, it showed readers the roots and the richness of Chinese American and Japanese American writing. The authors called their anthology Aiiieeeee! because that was the shout, the scream, often the only sound coming from the yellow man or woman in American movies, television, or comic books. But as that work demonstrated, the Asian American writer, long ignored and excluded from participating in American culture, has an articulate and creative voice. The Big Aiiieeeee!—an entirely new and truly comprehensive collection—brings together the earliest writings to appear in America, such as the revealing An English-Chinese Phrase Book used by the first generation of Chinese immigrants, and recent stories and essays, such as “Come All Ye Asian American Writers” by Frank Chin, about the importance of Chinese and Japanese heroic tradition. Here we all can now learn of the pain, the dreams, the betrayals, and the indelible sense of “otherness” of Americans of Chinese and Japanese descent, in a seminal collection of poetry, prose, and drama—writings filled with rage and beauty, memory and vision. “Here is a Gold Mountain of voices. In the telling and retelling of our stories, we create a community of memory. This huge collection invites all of us to become listeners and to claim America.”—Ronald Takai, author of Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans

The Big Aiiieeeee!: An Anthology of Chinese-American and Japanese-American Literature

Inada, Lawson Fusao

Chin, Frank

Chan, Jeffery Paul

Plume

Follows the experiences of Rainsford Chan, a fourth-generation Chinese American as he embarks on a journey to understand the legacy of his forebears, and to finally claim America as his own

Home Base: A Novel

These brief anthologies of ethnic American literature are ideal for ethnic, multicultural and American literature courses. They are designed to introduce undergraduates to the rich but often neglected literary contributions of established and newer ethnic writers to American literature. Each text is organized chronologically by genre and represent a wide range of literature.

Asian American Literature: A Brief Introduction and Anthology

History & Criticism

Pearson

An Asian American couple is determined to overcome the obstacles of family, race, and sex as they struggle to live happily ever after

Simon&Schuster

Coping with the usual challenges of love and relationships, divorced Chinese-American Raymond Ding and Japanese-Irish Aurora Crane are further challenged by age-old family traditions and the expectations of their own generation. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

American Knees: A Novel

Bearing Dreams, Shaping Visions: Asian Pacific American Perspectives (Association for Asian American Studies Series)

Nomura, Gail M.

Association for Asian American Studies

Washington State Univ Pr

Homebase is the coming of age story of Rainsford Chan in 1950s and '60s California. Rainsford is a fourth-generation Chinese American named after the town where his great-grandfather worked during the gold rush. Orphaned at fifteen, he attempts to claim America as his homebase, and his personal history is interwoven with dreams, stories, and letters of his family's life in America. Moving through time and place, the story allows the reader to discover the past as Rainsford does, to see the world through his eyes, and to learn the truth about the Chinese American experience.

Homebase: A novel

I. Reed Books

Homebase a Novel

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American Knees

Homebase: A Novel (Asian American Studies)

The Big Aiiieeeee!: An Anthology of Chinese-American and Japanese-American Literature

Home Base: A Novel

Asian American Literature: A Brief Introduction and Anthology

American Knees

American Knees: A Novel

Bearing Dreams, Shaping Visions: Asian Pacific American Perspectives (Association for Asian American Studies Series)

Homebase: A novel

Homebase a Novel