A Chronological List of Influential Authors & Key Texts
prepared by Wei Ming Dariotis, 2003
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Jade Snow Wong. Fifth Chinese Daughter. 1945
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Carlos Bulosan. America is in the Heart. 1946
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Toshio Mori. Yokohama, California. 1949 (was supposed to be printed in 1941)
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Monica Sone. Nisei Daughter. 1953
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Diana Chang. The Frontiers of Love. 1956
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John Okada. No-No Boy. 1957
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Milton Murayama. All I Asking for is My Body. 1959
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Louis Chu. Eat a Bowl of Tea. 1961
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Frank Chin. Chickencoop Chinaman, 1972-first published 1981
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Chin, et al. Aiiieeeee!. 1974
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Maxine Hong Kingston. The Woman Warrior. 1976
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Laurence Yep. Child of the Owl. 1977
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Janice Mirikitani. Awake in the River. 1978
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Shawn Wong. Homebase. 1979
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Joy Kogawa. Obasan. 1981
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Toshio Mori. Chauvinist and Other Stories. 1981
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S.P. Somtow. Starship and Haiku. 1981
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Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. Dictee. 1982
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Yoshiko Uchida. Desert Exile. 1982
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Wendy Law-Yone. The Coffin Tree. 1983
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S.P. Somtow. Vampire Junction. 1983
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Ty Pak. Guilt Payment. 1983
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Li-Young Li. Rose. 1986
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Kim Ronyoung. Clay Walls. 1987
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Janice Mirikitani. Shedding Silence. 1987
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Hisaye Yamamoto. Seventeen Syllables. 1988 (portions originally publ’d 1940s-60s)
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Maxine Hong Kingston. Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book. 1989
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Bharati Mukherjee. Jasmine. 1989
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Jessica Hagedorn. Dogeaters. 1990
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Li-Young Li. The City in Which I Love You. 1990
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David Wong Louie. Pangs of Love. 1991
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Karen Tei Yamashita. Through the Arc of the Rain Forest. 1990, Brazil-Maru. 1992
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S.P. Somtow. Jasmine Nights. 1994
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Faye Mynne Ng. Bone. 1994
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Sigrid Nunez. A Feather on the Breath of God. 1995
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R. Zamora Linmark. Rolling the Rs. 1995
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Al Robles. Rappin’ with Ten Thousand Carabaos in the Dark. 1996 (many originally written in 1970s)
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Chang-Rae Lee. Native Speaker. 1995
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Janice Mirikitani. We, the Dangerous: New and Selected Poems. 1995
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M. Evelina Galang. Her Wild American Self. 1996
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Nora Okja Keller. Comfort Woman. 1997
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Karen Tei Yamashita. Tropic of Orange. 1997
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Meena Alexander. Manhattan Music. 1997
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Chitra Divakaruni. Arranged Marriage: Stories. 1996, The Mistress of Spices. 1997
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Lan Cao. Monkey Bridge. 1997
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Gish Jen. Mona in the Promised Land. 1996, Who’s Irish?. 1999
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Ruth Ozeki. My Year of Meats. 1998
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Troung Tran. The Book of Perceptions. 1999
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Chitra Divakaruni. Sister of My Heart. 1999
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Chitra Divakaruni. The Vine of Desire. 2002
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Tess Uriza Holthe. When the Elephants Dance. 2002
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Yongsoo Park. Boy Genius. 2002
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Noel Alumit. Letters to Montgomery Clift. 2002
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le thi diem thuy. The Gangster We Are All Looking For. 2003
