Sun May 26, 2019
BINDERY: Penguin Classics Asian American Writers Series / Elaine Castillo and Karen Tei Yamashita
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The Bindery hosts a special afternoon event with Elaine Castillo (America is Not the Heart) and Karen Tei Yamashita (I Hotel), in celebration of four new titles in the Penguin Classics Asian American Writers Series. Some of the most influential Asian Americans writing today supplement each title with introductions and forewords. For the contributors, these books have always been classics:
The Hanging On Union Square by H.T. Tsiang; introduction by Hua Hsu, edited with an afterword and notes by Floyd Cheung
East Goes West by Younghill Kang; foreword by Alexander Chee, afterword and notes by Sunyoung Lee
No-No Boy by John Okada; introduction by Karen Tei Yamashita
America Is in the Heart by Carlos Bulosan; foreword by Elaine Castillo and introduction by E. San Juan, Jr.
The authors of these Classics have all endured comparisons to more well-known white authors in order to approximate their own genius; Kang’s East Goes West has been compared to Whitman and Nabokov, Bulosan’s America Is in the Heart to Steinbeck. Yet each author’s work uniquely acts as a powerful touchstone for the immigrant experience in America.
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The Hanging On Union Square by H.T. Tsiang; introduction by Hua Hsu, edited with an afterword and notes by Floyd Cheung
East Goes West by Younghill Kang; foreword by Alexander Chee, afterword and notes by Sunyoung Lee
No-No Boy by John Okada; introduction by Karen Tei Yamashita
America Is in the Heart by Carlos Bulosan; foreword by Elaine Castillo and introduction by E. San Juan, Jr.
The authors of these Classics have all endured comparisons to more well-known white authors in order to approximate their own genius; Kang’s East Goes West has been compared to Whitman and Nabokov, Bulosan’s America Is in the Heart to Steinbeck. Yet each author’s work uniquely acts as a powerful touchstone for the immigrant experience in America.
The Bindery hosts a special afternoon event with Elaine Castillo (America is Not the Heart) and Karen Tei Yamashita (I Hotel), in celebration of four new titles in the Penguin Classics Asian American Writers Series. Some of the most influential Asian Americans writing today supplement each title with introductions and forewords. For the contributors, these books have always been classics:
The Hanging On Union Square by H.T. Tsiang; introduction by Hua Hsu, edited with an afterword and notes by Floyd Cheung
East Goes West by Younghill Kang; foreword by Alexander Chee, afterword and notes by Sunyoung Lee
No-No Boy by John Okada; introduction by Karen Tei Yamashita
America Is in the Heart by Carlos Bulosan; foreword by Elaine Castillo and introduction by E. San Juan, Jr.
The authors of these Classics have all endured comparisons to more well-known white authors in order to approximate their own genius; Kang’s East Goes West has been compared to Whitman and Nabokov, Bulosan’s America Is in the Heart to Steinbeck. Yet each author’s work uniquely acts as a powerful touchstone for the immigrant experience in America.
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The Hanging On Union Square by H.T. Tsiang; introduction by Hua Hsu, edited with an afterword and notes by Floyd Cheung
East Goes West by Younghill Kang; foreword by Alexander Chee, afterword and notes by Sunyoung Lee
No-No Boy by John Okada; introduction by Karen Tei Yamashita
America Is in the Heart by Carlos Bulosan; foreword by Elaine Castillo and introduction by E. San Juan, Jr.
The authors of these Classics have all endured comparisons to more well-known white authors in order to approximate their own genius; Kang’s East Goes West has been compared to Whitman and Nabokov, Bulosan’s America Is in the Heart to Steinbeck. Yet each author’s work uniquely acts as a powerful touchstone for the immigrant experience in America.
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