Its Wavering Image
Author | : Sui Sin Far |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2005-01-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780977386796 |
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Author | : Sui Sin Far |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2005-01-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780977386796 |
Author | : Sui Sin Far |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2013-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0486493172 |
"One of the first works of fiction published by a Chinese-American author, this collection of 17 short stories offers a revealing look at life in San Francisco's Chinatown during the early 20th century. Deceptively simple tales of family life offer deeper reflections on the tensions that arise in the course of cultural assimilation"--
Author | : Judith Kay |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 2008-05-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780521703918 |
Authentic North American short stories enhance students' reading skills, language learning, and enjoyment of literature. The Teacher's Manual provides tips and strategies on how to teach the different exercise types in a chapter. In addition, the authors provide interpretative commentary on the readings, helping teachers gain a literary appreciation of the text. Finally, a complete answer key is provided, including suggested answers to the critical thinking questions.
Author | : Sui Sin Far |
Publisher | : Graphic Arts Books |
Total Pages | : 175 |
Release | : 2021-02-23 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1513276867 |
Mrs. Spring Fragrance (1912) is a collection of short stories by Sui Sin Far. Inspired by her experience living among Chinese Americans in San Francisco and Seattle, Mrs. Spring Fragrance is considered one of the earliest works of fiction published in the United States by a woman of Chinese heritage. In “The Inferior Woman,” Mrs. Spring Fragrance encounters her neighbors, the Carmans, as they try to find someone to marry their son. While Mrs. Carman wants him to marry into a family of higher social standing, her son is in love with a local girl who works as a legal secretary. Known by Mrs. Carman as the “Inferior Woman,” she has risen through hard work and perseverance to achieve her position at the law firm. Sympathetic toward her neighbor’s son, Mrs. Spring Fragrance advocates on his behalf. “In the Land of the Free” is the story of a Chinese immigrant who is separated from her young son upon arrival due to insufficient paperwork. Exploring the struggles of this woman to reclaim her son, Sui Sin Far exposes the discrimination and hardships faced by Chinese Americans due to the Chinese Exclusion Act, illuminating the byzantine and restrictive immigration policies which sadly continue under a different guise in modern America. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Sui Sin Far’s Mrs. Spring Fragrance is a classic of Chinese American literature reimagined for modern readers.
Author | : Xiao-huang Yin |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : 9780252025242 |
This volume, an introduction and guide to the field, traces the origins and development of a body of literature written in English and in Chinese.
Author | : Linda Joyce Brown |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 159 |
Release | : 2004-09-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1135932425 |
This work examines early twentieth-century literature about women immigrants in order to reveal the differing ways that American racial categories and identities, particularly that of whiteness, were textually and socially constructed at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Author | : Judith Kay |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2012-12-14 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 110763802X |
Equips students to read and understand great literature with vocabulary, reading, and critical thinking skills. Features: classic and contemporary stories give students a thorough background in North American literature; every chapter gives students practice in guessing meaning from context; students also learn to think critically, make inferences, discuss what they read, and write responses to the work. --
Author | : Hugh Reginald Haweis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1887 |
Genre | : Bible |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Margaret Crumpton Winter |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2007-05-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0807149543 |
American Narratives takes readers back to the turn of the twentieth century to reintroduce four writers of varying ethnic backgrounds whose works were mostly ignored by critics of their day. With the skill of a literary detective, Molly Crumpton Winter recovers an early multicultural discourse on assimilation and national belonging that has been largely overlooked by literary scholars. At the heart of the book are close readings of works by four nearly forgotten artists from 1890 to 1915, the era often termed the age of realism: Mary Antin, a Jewish American immigrant from Russia; Zitkala- a, a Sioux woman originally from South Dakota; Sutton E. Griggs, an African American from the South; and Sui Sin Far, a biracial, Chinese American female writer who lived on the West Coast. Winter's treatment of Antin's The Promised Land serves as an occasion for a reexamination of the concept of assimilation in American literature, and the chapter on Zitkala- a is the most comprehensive analysis of her narratives to date. Winter argues persuasively that Griggs should have long been a more visible presence in American literary history, and the exploration of Sui Sin Far reveals her to be the embodiment of the varied and unpredictable ways that diversity of cultures came together in America. In American Narratives, Winter maintains that the writings of these four rediscovered authors, with their emphasis on issues of ethnicity, identity, and nationality, fit squarely in the American realist tradition. She also establishes a multiethnic dialogue among these writers, demonstrating ways in which cultural identity and national belonging are peristently contested in this literature.
Author | : June Howard |
Publisher | : Oxford Studies in American Lit |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0198821395 |
Regional Writing and the Puzzles of Place-Time is a study of literary regionalism. It focuses on the fiction of the United States and considers the place of the genre in world literature. Regionalism is usually understood to be a literature bound to the local, but this study explores how regional writing shapes ways of imagining not only the neighborhood or the province, but also the nation, and ultimately the world. Its key premise is that thinking about place always entails imagining time. It analyzes how concepts crystallize across disciplines and in everyday discourse and proposes ways of revising American literary history and close readings of particular authors' work. It demonstrates, for example, the importance of the figure of the school-teacher and the one-room schoolhouse in local color and subsequent place-focused writing. Such representations embody the contested relation in modernity between localities and the knowledge they produce, and books that carry metropolitan and cosmopolitan learning. The volume discusses fiction from the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, including works by Sui Sin Far/Edith Eaton, Sarah Orne Jewett, Ernest Gaines, Wendell Berry, and Ursula LeGuin as well as romance novels and regional mysteries.