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Author
Publisher
Second Story Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Vee's favorite story is the day she met her parents. When Vee was still a baby, they flew to China to adopt her and bring her home. But when she struggles to keep up in Chinese dance class, Vee longs for a closer connection with her birth culture. At the same time, people in her community make Vee feel out of place in her own family. Vee wants to embrace every part of herself, but it's hard when she feels like she has to choose. With help from another...
Author
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In Fighting Invisibility, Monica Mong Trieu argues that we must consider the role of physical and symbolic space to fully understand the nuances of Asian American racialization. By doing this, we face questions such as, historically, who has represented Asian America? Who gets to represent Asian America? This book shifts the primary focus to Midwest Asian America to disrupt--and expand beyond--the existing privileged narratives in United States and...
Author
Publisher
Duke University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In Surface Relations Vivian L. Huang traces how Asian and Asian American artists have strategically reworked the pernicious stereotype of inscrutability as a dynamic antiracist, feminist, and queer form of resistance. Following inscrutability in literature, visual culture, and performance art since 1965, Huang articulates how Asian American artists take up aesthetics of Asian inscrutability-such as invisibility, silence, unreliability, flatness,...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
An award-winning novel from one of Ukraine's most prolific contemporary authors, Forgottenness tells a spellbinding story of belonging and uprootedness, as understood by two exiles across time. An exceedingly anxious narrator grapples with a host of conditions, from obsessive-compulsive disorder to a creeping sense of agoraphobia. As her symptoms deepen, she finds unexpected solace researching Viacheslav Lypynskyi a social and political activist of...
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