List of Asian American writers
In the fields of Ethnic Studies and Literary Scholarship, the term Asian American is a bit vague. In practice, it usually includes writers from East Asia and South Asia, but not from West Asia (Middle Easterners). At the same time, it often includes Asian Canadian writers, such as Joy Kogawa[1][2] and Michael Ondaatje.[3] Occasionally, it refers to Asian authors who have written about their experiences in the Americas. Technically, it could include hispanophone Asian authors as well.
Asian U.S. writers
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E-J
K-L
- Cynthia Kadohata
- Hizakazu Kaneko[2]
- Michiko Kakutani
- Michael Kang
- Minsoo Kang (historian and writer)
- Younghill Kang, novelist
- Hiroshi Kashiwagi, poet, playwright, novelist
- Soji Kashiwagi, playwright
- Nora Okja Keller, author of Comfort Woman (1997) and Fox Girl (2002)
- Charles Kikuchi[2]
- Akemi Kikumura[2]
- Elaine H. Kim, author of Asian American Literature: An Introduction to the Writings and Their Social Context
- Jaegwon Kim, philosopher
- Patti Kim
- Peter Kim
- Richard E. Kim, novelist
- Ronyoung Kim
- Young Ik Kim[2]
- Maxine Hong Kingston (novelist)
- Dorinne K. Kondo
- Geraldine Kudaka[2]
- Alexander Kuo[2]
- Helena Kuo[2]
- Jean Kwok, author of Girl in Translation (2010)
- Dan Kwong
- Jhumpa Lahiri
- Him Mark Lai
- Andrew Lam
- Alan Chong Lau[2]
- Wendy Law-Yone[2]
- Le Thi Diem Thuy
- Chang-Rae Lee
- Chin-yang Lee[2]
- Ching Yang Lee (黎錦揚)
- Ed Bok Lee
- Gus Lee (李健孫)
- Helie Lee
- Henry K. Lee (Chinese-American, reporter, S.F. Chronicle)
- Li-Young Lee
- Virginia Lee[2]
- William Poy Lee
- Carol Lem[2]
- Monfoon Leong[2]
- Russell Leong
- Janet Lim[2]
- Shirley Geok-lin Lim
- Adet and Anor Lin[2]
- Alice Lin[2]
- Ed Lin
- Grace Lin
- Hazel Ai Chun Lin[2]
- Amy Ling[2]
- Lin Tai-yi[2]
- Lin Yutang[2]
- Linh Dinh
- Eric Liu
- Stephen Liu[2]
- Vyvyane Loh
- Virginia S. Loh
- Jean Yee Long
- David Wong Louie
- Pardee Lowe[2]
- Alvin Lu
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T-Z
Asian Canadian writers
West Asian (Middle Eastern) writers
South Asian U.S. writers
See also
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References
- ^ see, for example, Sau-Ling Cynthia Wong's statement, "The practice of including Kogawa in the Asian American roster is standard in the field," in her book Reading Asian American Literature: From Necessity to Extravagance, p. 16. The same practice is found in Lisa Lowe's Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics; King-Kok Cheung's Articulate Silences: Hisaye Yamamoto, Maxine Hong Kingston, Joy Kogawa (see page xv, in which she explains why she defines "American" as "North American", as does Helena Grice in Negotiating Identities: An Introduction to Asian American Women's Writing); Stan Yogi's essay on Japanese American Literature and Donald Goellnicht's essay "Asian American Literature as Theory," both in Cheung's reference work An Interethnic Companion to Asian American Literature; Sheng-Mei Ma's The Deathly Embrace: Orientalism and Asian American Identity; Emmanuel S. Nelson's reference book Asian American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook; Stephen Sumida's article East of California: Points of Origin in Asian American Studies; and Shirley Geok-lin Lim and Amy Ling's collection of critical essays, Reading the Literatures of Asian America
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw ax ay az ba bb bc bd be bf bg bh bi bj bk bl bm bn bo bp bq br bs bt bu bv bw bx by bz ca cb cc cd ce cf cg ch ci cj ck cl cm cn co listed in Amy Ling's bibliography, "Asian American Literature," in Redefining American Literary History, A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff and Jerry W. Ward, eds., MLA, 1990.
- ^ For instance, Emmanuel S. Nelson includes a chapter on Ondaatje in his Asian American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook,.