Essential Asian American Literature
Volume 31, Number 1
November-December 2009
Excerpts available through Project Muse; full articles available to Project Muse subscribers.
Sue-Im Lee’s Introduction to Focus: Essential Asian American Literature
Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s The Woman Warrior: Her Planetary Asian American Imagination
Donald C. Goellnicht reviews Joy Kogawa’s Obasan: An Essential Asian American Text?
Donatella Izzo’s Old Landmarks, New Landscapes
Pin-chia Feng’s Teaching Bone: A Taiwanese Perspective
Hyungji Park’s The Immigrant as Spy
Helena Grice’s Teaching Asian America in Europe: Race, Pedagogy, and Inter-Cultural Engagement
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Masticating Adrian Tomine
Feature: Remembering Raymond Federman
An excerpt from Raymond Federman’s SHHH: The Story of a Childhood
Book Reviews
Keith Leslie Johnson reviews Brian Evensons’s Fugue State
Jerome Klinkowitz reviews Kurt Vonnegut’s Look at the Birdie: Unpublished Short Fiction
Joel Felix reviews Vanessa Place and Robert Fitterman’s Notes on Conceptualisms
Amy L. Clark reviews Amelia Gray’s AM/PM
Ed Falco reviews Steve Tomasula’s TOC
Paula Koneazny reviews Patricia Carlin’s Quantum Jitters
Man Martin reviews ed. Todd Robinson’s Sex, Thugs, and Rock & Roll
Brandon D. Shuler reviews Tracy Daugherty’s Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme
John A. McDermott reviews Matthew Roberson’s Impotent
Barry Wallenstein reviews Philip Appleman’s Karma, Dharma, Pudding & Pie
Bob Grumman reviews Vernon Frazer’s Emblematic Moon
Departments
Page 2—Jeffrey R. Di Leo’s Postfederman
From Our Own—J.D. Smith reviews Eric Miles Williamson’s Welcome to Oakland
Scenes—Wave Books
Backlist—Steven Wingate reviews Georgi Gospodinov and trans. Alexis Levitin and Magdalena Levy’s And Other Stories
Related Issues
Focus: American World Literature — July / August 2015
Recent American fiction supplies a map partly corresponding to the world as it is and partly referencing a world to come.
Focus: Hispanic Poetry in the Americas — November-December 2002
Reviews of books by Latina and Latino poets in the United States and Latin America including Miguel Hernández, Homero Aridjis, Daisy Zamora, Alberto Ríos, and María Negroni.
Focus: Secular Writing — July / August 2018
Secular writing is averse to certain forms of normativism and ritualism but supportive of humanistic engagements with the spiritual.
LATEST ISSUE
Focus: Digital Art — Winter 2023
Aesthetic experience in the digital age
RECENT ISSUES
Focus: Rethinking Classics — Fall 2023
Vital and changing studies of the ancient world, opening up the past with new questions.
Focus: Rejections — Summer 2023
Rejection is the universe’s way of affirming one’s existence, an unavoidable—but sometimes tonic—part of life.
ARCHIVES
Archives: Charles Johnson reviews Richard Wright
Charles Johnson reviewed Richard Wright's American Hunger in the inaugural issue of the American Book Review, Volume 1 , No. 1, December 1977.
