tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29524574.post8232622771070460392..comments2024-03-26T03:24:09.287-07:00Comments on On The Other Side Of The Eye: [The 500 Project] APIA Literature and the X-FilesBryan Thao Worrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14250802784254875765noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29524574.post-1541685047285926972011-02-18T09:41:20.748-08:002011-02-18T09:41:20.748-08:00Which was all an elaborate set-up to getting back ...Which was all an elaborate set-up to getting back to our discussion of the X-files. Zing!Bryan Thao Worrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14250802784254875765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29524574.post-9541866268727028462011-02-18T09:40:44.810-08:002011-02-18T09:40:44.810-08:00Or: Can a healthy introduction to Asian American l...Or: Can a healthy introduction to Asian American literature emerge from reading "Sinner Takes All," the autobiography of Thai-American porn star Tera Patrick?<br /><br />While some might say it doesn't belong in the ranks of "Heaven and Earth", "the Winged Seed" or "Turning Japanese," her book ranks #72,654 to Turning Japanese score of #1,208,340 on Amazon's best seller list. Winged Seed is 848,845 just to keep it all in perspective.<br /><br />Which doesn't necessarily mean much more than a cup of coffee, I suppose, but it's an interesting figure.Bryan Thao Worrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14250802784254875765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29524574.post-85631697566660645942011-02-18T09:34:22.740-08:002011-02-18T09:34:22.740-08:00Per Dr. Wikipedia: Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (June ...Per Dr. Wikipedia: Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (June 26, 1892 – March 6, 1973) also known by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzhu (Chinese: 賽珍珠; pinyin: Sài Zhēnzhū), was an award-winning American writer who spent most of her time until 1934 in China. <br /><br />Her novel The Good Earth was the best-selling fiction book in the U.S. in 1931 and 1932, and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. <br /><br />In 1938, she became the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces."[1]<br /><br />Informed by her experience in Asia, should we consider an Asian American writer or an American Asian writer or just throw it out of consideration all together. <br /><br />In any case, for her, I think it would not be a conventional start into the socio-political-literary minefields of modern APIA literature, but consider that Anchee Min felt Pearl Buck portrayed Chinese peasants "with such love, affection and humanity." <br /><br />And others felt that she demythologized the Chinese to American minds, and so, drawing from that, might we then extend the argument to say she opened a pathway for Asian American literature?<br /><br />Hmmmm.Bryan Thao Worrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14250802784254875765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29524574.post-17115709057955279802011-02-18T09:29:11.982-08:002011-02-18T09:29:11.982-08:00Um, I don't know what that means.Um, I don't know what that means.bjaneprhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07212077947146090915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29524574.post-10469106939233770662011-02-18T09:28:34.777-08:002011-02-18T09:28:34.777-08:00Lol, and then the fun goes back to our Pearl Buck-...Lol, and then the fun goes back to our Pearl Buck-Tera Patrick debate we were having.Bryan Thao Worrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14250802784254875765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29524574.post-25252481332085878862011-02-18T09:08:30.754-08:002011-02-18T09:08:30.754-08:00I am of course, talking about APIA authored lit. W...I am of course, talking about APIA authored lit. Whatever other folks are writing about us is NOT a good place to start, esp. when it's coming from an uninformed place.<br /><br />So clarification: avant garde poetries authored by APIA writers.bjaneprhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07212077947146090915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29524574.post-6820899046520784212011-02-18T09:05:25.660-08:002011-02-18T09:05:25.660-08:00ooh. Good. But at the same time let me suggest &qu...ooh. Good. But at the same time let me suggest "Their Guys, Those Glittering Asian Guys" is probably on my top 5 worst places to start. ;)Bryan Thao Worrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14250802784254875765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29524574.post-43325667199488907172011-02-18T08:52:27.703-08:002011-02-18T08:52:27.703-08:00Bryan, let me also direct you to this Fil Am Lit b...Bryan, let me also direct you to this Fil Am Lit biblio I started compiling some years ago. I try to update when I hear of new titles:<br /><br />http://www.barbarajanereyes.com/flip-lit/<br /><br />Really, I've also been thinking there isn't really a set "starting place" for some people. I think of how some folks can enter into APIA lit through some of the most avant garde poetics, versus more straight forward narratives. Some readers' brains, I think, are configured that way, to "decode" that "difficult" poetry and appreciate the APIA themes, issues, politics that some "experimental" poetries handle well.bjaneprhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07212077947146090915noreply@blogger.com