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The State of Asian America

Activism and Resistance in the 1990s

The State of Asian America( )
Editor: Aguilar-San Juan, Karin
Foreword by: Hwang, David Henry
Afterword by: Jaimes, M. Annette
Series title:Race and Resistance Ser.
ISBN:978-0-89608-476-6
Publication Date:Nov 1993
Publisher:South End Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $46.95
Book Description:

A series of essays that give voice to contemporary Asian-American activism, offering thoughtful, radical analyses on a range of pressing issues including the 1992 LA uprising, feminism, neo-conservatism, art and politics.

Book Details
Pages:394
Detailed Subjects: Social Science / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / American / Asian American & Pacific Islander Studies
Social Science / Minority Studies
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):13.716 x 21.59 x 2.286 cm
Book Weight:0.469 Kilograms
Author Biography
(Editor)
The son of immigrant Chinese parents, Hwang attended Stanford University and the Yale Drama School and has been a director and a teacher of playwriting. FOB (1981), which stands for "Fresh off the boat,"' explores the conflicts between two Chinese Americans and a Chinese exchange student still steeped in the customs and beliefs of the old world. It won an Obie Award in 1981. The Dance and the Railroad (1982) concerns an artist and his fellow workers who stage a strike to protest the inhuman conditions suffered by Chinese railroad workers in the American West in the nineteenth century. M Butterfly (1988), about the relationship between an American man and a Chinese transvestite, won the Tony Award as best play of the year. Maxine Hong Kingston wrote, "David Hwang has an ear for Chinatown English, the language of childhood and the subconscious, the language of emotion, the language of home."

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