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"There Are No Hispanic Stars!"
Collected Writings of a Latino Film Critic in Hollywood, 1921–1939
In the 1920s and 1930s a uniquely Mexican American entertainment culture flourished across the southwestern United States. Spanish-language newspapers offered theater listings, coverage of favorite performers, cultural criticism, and serialized novels that thematized entertainment culture....
ISBN: 9780895512048
more detailsSerpent, Siren, Maelstrom, and Myth
Sea Stories and Folktales from Around the World
The sea is beautiful and alluring, but it is also dangerous and deadly. Above all, it is unknowable and untamable. Storytelling offered our ancestors a means to understand and interact with the natural world, and...
ISBN: 9780295752310
more detailsDancer Dawkins and the California Kid
Dancer Dawkins is a swift-footed, weed-smoking football stud. Her lover, Jessica, left their place in Los Angeles to join a Napa Valley cult, where she believes she has found salvation. Willie Gutherie, the cigar-smoking, self-proclaimed...
ISBN: 9780295752075
more detailsA Thorough Exploration in Historiography / <I>Shitong</I>
In the early eighth century, frustrated with the authorities but still hoping to gain immortality through his future oeuvre, the Tang court historian Liu Zhiji set out to write Shitong, in which he would rigorously...
ISBN: 9780295751061
more detailsA Century of Modern Chinese Poetry
An Anthology
This volume—a completely overhauled and updated version of Michelle Yeh’s 1992 classic Anthology of Modern Chinese Poetry—brings together modern poetry from the Chinese-speaking world dating from the 1910s to the 2010s. Featuring the work of...
ISBN: 9780295751160
more detailsThe First Five
A New Collection of Southeast Asian Writing
Southeast Asia's literature is a rich mine of creativity, and stories and poems are readily accessible to readers who wish to take a quick dip into the literature of their neighbors. This anthology is a...
ISBN: 9786162151422
more detailsPicture Bride
A Novel
Seeking an escape from life in her small village in Japan, Hana Omiya arrives in California in 1917, one of thousands of Japanese “picture brides" whose arranged marriages brought them to the United States. When...
ISBN: 9780295751122
more detailsIn the Year of the Rabbit
A Novel
Cameraman Brendan Leary survived the ambush of the Big Buddha Bicycle Race—but Tukada, his star-crossed lover, did not. Numb, Leary returns to combat, flying night operations over the mountains of Laos. When his gunship is...
ISBN: 9786162151767
more detailsAwake in the River and Shedding Silence
Fierce, raw, and unapologetic, Janice Mirikitani’s poetry and prose are as vibrant and resonant today as when these two collections were first published in 1978 and 1987. Now back in print in one volume, Awake...
ISBN: 9780295749587
more detailsGarden of Eloquence / Shuoyuan說苑
Winner of the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Literary Work, sponsored by the Modern Language Association In 17 BCE the Han dynasty archivist Liu Xiang presented to the throne a...
ISBN: 9780295995199
more detailsSustainable Living
In Sustainable Living, the backwoods and small towns of the upper Midwest are places not to run from, but to return to, to seek refuge in, and to discover unsettling truths. A woman returns to...
ISBN: 9781955082006
more detailsAnakú Iwachá
Yakama Legends and Stories
Central to the Yakama oral tradition, storytelling enables Tribal Elders to share lessons, values, and customs with younger generations across the Columbia River plateau and the Pacific Northwest. Drawn from a time before the coming...
ISBN: 9780295748245
more detailsThe Lady of Linshui Pacifies Demons
A Seventeenth-Century Novel
The Lady of Linshui—the goddess of women, childbirth, and childhood—is still venerated in south China, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia. Her story evolved from the life of Chen Jinggu in the eighth century and blossomed in...
ISBN: 9780295748351
more detailsThe <I>Zuo Tradition / Zuozhuan </I>Reader
Selections from China’s Earliest Narrative History
Zuo Tradition, China’s first great work of history, was completed by about 300 BCE and recounts events during a period of disunity from 722 to 468 BCE. The text, which plays a foundational role in...
ISBN: 9780295747750
more detailsFurther Adventures on the Journey to the West
As the audacious Monkey King battles his way through a landscape of inexplicable places and unfamiliar passions, Further Adventures on the Journey to the West offers a wry, revisionist critique of the late-Ming fascination with...
ISBN: 9780295747729
more detailsPost Romantic
Poems
In her wide-ranging third book, poet Kathleen Flenniken undertakes the difficult task of re-seeing what is before us. Post Romantic fuses personal memory with national and ecological upheaval, interweaving narratives of family, nuclear history, love...
ISBN: 9780295747798
more detailsKings in Love: <I>Lilit Phra Lo</I> and <I>Twelve Months</I>
Two classic Thai poems
Kings in Love: Lilit Phra Lo and Twelve Months (Thawathotsamat) are among the earliest works of Thai literature. These translations by an award-winning team aim to convey not only the meaning of the Thai originals...
ISBN: 9786162151613
more detailsOne Left
A Novel
During the Pacific War, more than 200,000 Korean girls were forced into sexual servitude for Japanese soldiers. They lived in horrific conditions in "comfort stations" across Japanese-occupied territories. Barely 10 percent survived to return to...
ISBN: 9780295747668
more detailsWalking the High Desert
Encounters with Rural America along the Oregon Desert Trail
Former high desert rancher Ellen Waterston writes of a wild, essentially roadless, starkly beautiful part of the American West. Following the recently created 750-mile Oregon Desert Trail, she embarks on a creative and inquisitive exploration,...
ISBN: 9780295747507
more detailsEat a Bowl of Tea
At the close of the Second World War, racist immigration laws trapped enclaves of old men in Chinatowns across the United States, preventing their wives or families from joining them. They took refuge from loneliness...
ISBN: 9780295747057
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