Book contents
- The Cambridge History ofAsian American Literature
- The Cambridge History of Asian American Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Early Forms of Expression to the Start of the Twentieth Century
- Part II The Exclusion Era, World War II, and the Immediate Postwar Era
- Part III The Asian American Movement
- 12 Documenting the Third World Student Strike, the Antiwar Movement, and the Emergence of Second-Wave Feminism from Asian American Perspectives
- 13 The Art of the Asian American Movement’s Social Protest Performance
- 14 Inventing Identity: The Manifestos of Pioneering Asian American Literature Anthologies
- 15 Maxine Hong Kingston, Feminism, and Postmodern Literature
- Part IV Canons
- Part V Post-1965 and the Twenty-First Century
- Part VI Twenty-First Century: 9/11, Empire, and Other Challenges to Literature
- Bibliography
- Index
14 - Inventing Identity: The Manifestos of Pioneering Asian American Literature Anthologies
from Part III - The Asian American Movement
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2015
Book contents
- The Cambridge History ofAsian American Literature
- The Cambridge History of Asian American Literature
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Early Forms of Expression to the Start of the Twentieth Century
- Part II The Exclusion Era, World War II, and the Immediate Postwar Era
- Part III The Asian American Movement
- 12 Documenting the Third World Student Strike, the Antiwar Movement, and the Emergence of Second-Wave Feminism from Asian American Perspectives
- 13 The Art of the Asian American Movement’s Social Protest Performance
- 14 Inventing Identity: The Manifestos of Pioneering Asian American Literature Anthologies
- 15 Maxine Hong Kingston, Feminism, and Postmodern Literature
- Part IV Canons
- Part V Post-1965 and the Twenty-First Century
- Part VI Twenty-First Century: 9/11, Empire, and Other Challenges to Literature
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter focuses on important early Asian American literary anthologies, those that had a significant impact on the field in general and in shaping Asian American cultural identities in particular. Aiiieeeee! is the most well-known early anthology of Asian American writing. The important development in Asian American literary anthologizing was work by feminist editors with the express goal of recovering, discovering, and promoting writing by a broad range of Asian American women. The most significant and widely available of feminist anthologies includes The Forbidden Stitch: An Asian American Women's Anthology. Despite the intersectional approach through race and gender of these anthologies, which might seem to narrow the conception of identity they advocate, they in fact take a more expansive approach to Asian American identity than their earlier, male-dominated counterparts. The editors seem more interested in attempting to represent diverse identities of Asian American women.
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