Phoenix Eyes and Other Stories (eBook)

Russell Charles Leong (Autor)

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2012
208 Seiten
University of Washington Press (Verlag)
978-0-295-80272-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Russell Charles Leong shows an astonishing range in this new collection of stories. From struggling war refugees to monks, intellectuals to sex workers, his characters are both linked and separated by their experiences as modern Asians and Asian Americans.In styles ranging from naturalism to high-camp parody, Leong goes beneath stereotypes of immigrant and American-born Chinese, hustlers and academics, Buddhist priests and street people. Displacement and marginalization and the search for love and liberation are persistent themes. Leongs people are set apart, by sexuality, by war, by AIDS, by family dislocations. From this vantage point on the outskirts of conventional life, they often see clearly the accommodations we make with identity and with desire. A young teen-ager, sold into prostitution to finance her brothers education, saves her hair trimmings to burn once a year in a temple ritual, the one part of her body that is under her own control. A documentary film producer, raised in a noisy Hong Kong family, marvels at the popular image of Asian Americans as a silenced minority. Traditional Chinese families struggle to come to terms with gay children and AIDS.

Autor

Russell Charles Leong , longtime editor of Amerasia Journal and managing editor of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center Publications, is also an award-winning poet and documentary filmmaker.

Inhalt

Leaving1) Bodhi Leaves2) Geography One3) Runaways4) Daughers5) SonsSamsara6) A Yin and Her Man7) Hemispheres8) Camouflage9) Eclipse10) SamsaraPardise11) The Western Paradise of Eddie Bin12) Phoenix Eyes13) No Bruce Lee14) Where do People Live Who Never Die?Acknowledgments

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.2.2012
• Reihe/Serie: Scott and Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies
• Reihe/Serie: Scott and Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies
• Reihe/Serie: Scott and Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies
• Reihe/Serie: Scott and Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies
• Verlagsort: Seattle
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 0-295-80272-3 / 0295802723
• ISBN-13: 978-0-295-80272-5 / 9780295802725