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Classics of Asian American Literature
The University of Washington Press publishes new editions of these classic works of fiction and memoirs, with new introductions by leading scholars and writers.
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Fifth Chinese Daughter
Jade Snow Wong’s autobiography portrays her coming-of-age in San Francisco's Chinatown, offering a rich depiction of her immigrant family and her strict upbringing, as well as her rebellion against...
ISBN: 9780295745909
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Aiiieeeee!
An Anthology of Asian American Writers
In the eyes of mid-twentieth-century white America, “Aiiieeeee!” was the one-dimensional cry from Asian Americans, their singular expression of all emotions—it signified and perpetuated the...
ISBN: 9780295746487
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Pangs of Love and Other Writings
An apprentice sushi chef and a mysterious blue-eyed woman share a bottle of wine inside a climate-controlled otter tank. The Great Wall of China grumbles as workers forego construction to watch an...
ISBN: 9780295745398
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Scent of Apples
A Collection of Stories
Winner of the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book AwardThis collection of sixteen stories brings the work of a distinguished Filipino writer to an American audience. Scent of Apples...
ISBN: 9780295995113
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Desert Exile
The Uprooting of a Japanese American Family
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, everything changed for Yoshiko Uchida. Desert Exile is her autobiographical account of life before and during World War II. The book does more than relate...
ISBN: 9780295994758
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Yokohama, California
Yokohama, California, originally released in 1949, is the first published collection of short stories by a Japanese American. Set in a fictional community, these linked stories are alive with...
ISBN: 9780295994741
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America Is in the Heart
A Personal History
First published in 1943, this classic memoir by well-known Filipino poet Carlos Bulosan describes his boyhood in the Philippines, his voyage to America, and his years of hardship and despair as an...
ISBN: 9780295993539
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No-No Boy
"No-No Boy has the honor of being among the first of what has become an entire literary canon of Asian American literature,” writes novelist Ruth Ozeki in her new foreword. First published...
ISBN: 9780295994048
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Citizen 13660
Mine Okubo was one of over one hundred thousand people of Japanese descent - nearly two-thirds of whom were American citizens - who were forced into “protective custody” shortly after Pearl Harbor....
ISBN: 9780295993546
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Quiet Odyssey
A Pioneer Korean Woman in America
Mary Paik Lee, born Paik Kuang Sun in 1900, left her native country in 1905, traveling with her parents as a political refugee after Japan imposed control over Korea at the close of the Russo-Japanese...
ISBN: 9780295969695
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Nisei Daughter
With charm, humor, and deep understanding, Monica Sone tells what it was like to grow up Japanese American on Seattle’s waterfront in the 1930s and to be subjected to “relocation” during World...
ISBN: 9780295993553
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