MAKING MORE WAVES
NEW WRITING BY ASIAN AMERICAN WOMEN

Secondary Literature, Asian American, Womens

An anthology of new writings by Asian American women covering "history, memory, sexuality and repression, culture, spiritual, artistic, and generational conflicts. The works of established and respected writers, poets, journalists and scholars such as Chitra Divakaruni, Kimiko Hahn, Helen Zia, Lisa See, Marilyn Chin, Lisa Lowe, Yen Le Espiritu, Mitsuye Yamada, Elaine Kim and Trinh T. Minh-ha are presented alongside the works of emerging voices such as Susan Ito, Anu Gupta, and the precocious sixteen-year-old Filipino American poet Juno Parrenas.

The editors clearly believe in creating a forum for us to keep telling our stories, exploring what it means to be Asian, to be American, and to be female...." - Jessica Hagedorn

Part 1 - Memory - twists of wash in the starched sunlight

• Kimiko Hahn, The Box of Abandoned White Buttons (poem)
• Linda Hishioka, Jean and Me (poem)
• Maria Sarita Echavez See, Mourning the Blood That Spilled to Make This Stew and Laughing Loud, or Why I Hate My Cousin Pucha (essay)
• Grace Elaine Suh, Gifts of the Magi (story)
• Juno Salazar Parrenas, for my Lola (poem)
• Jessica Oliver, Remembering Ma-Ma (essay)
• Ka Vang, Inheriting My Mother's Garden (essay)
• Sophronia Liu, So Tsi-fai(essay)
• Lilia V. Villanueva, My Family/My Gang (story)

Part 2 - Implosion - where dreams are necessary

• Passion Cummings, Mano (poem)
• Ching-Fei Chang, Homecoming (story)
• Catalina Cariaga, No Stone (poem)
• Marie G. Lee, Summer of My Korean Soldier (story)
• Chitra Divakaruni, The Babies; I and II (poems)
• Lisa Park, A Letter to My Sister (essay)
• Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, Three Women and a Master (essay)
• Kimiko Hahn, Blindsided (poem)
• Mitsuye Yamada, Warning (poem)
• Brenda Kwon, Inheritance (poem)

Part 3 - Reflection - on the cusp between the old and the new

• Li Min Mo, Virginia Wong's Way of Seeing (poem)
• Nora Okja Keller, The Brilliance of Diamonds (story)
• Renee Tajima-Pena, Cinemaya (essay)
• Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Defining Genealogies: Feminist Reflections of Being South Asian in North America (essay)
• Susan Ito, Hambun-Hambun (essay)
• Priscilla Lee, Fortune (poem)
• Yen Le Espiritu, Race, Class, and Gender in Asian America (essay)
• Dana Y. Takagi, Maiden Voyage: Excursion into Sexuality and Identity Politics in Asian America (essay)

Part 4 - Contestation - tell this story to America and the whole world

• Ann Gupta, Storytime (story)
• Marilyn Chin, A Portrait of the Self as Nation, 1990-1991 (poem)
• Sumi K. Cho, Asian Pacific American Women and Racialized Sexual Harrassment (essay)
• Hershini Bhana, How to Articulate the Inarticulable I, II, and III (poems)
• Dai Sil Kim-Gibson, They Defiled My Body, Not My Spirit: The Story of a Korean Comfort Woman, Chung Seo Woon (interview)
• Elaine H. Kim, "Bad Women": Asian American Visual Artists Hahn Thi Pham, Hung Liu, and Yong Woon Min (essay)

Part 5 - Movement - passion and commitment

• Helen Zia, Violence in Our Communities:"Where Are the Asian Women?" (essay)
• Anurada G. Advani, Against the Tide: Reflections on Organizing New York City's South Asian Taxicab Drivers (essay)
• Elsa E'der, Que Dang, and Karen Kimura, Living Today: HIV, AIDS, and Asian and Pacific Islander Women (interview)
• Chizu Iiyama and Lisa S. Hirai Tsuchitani, Speaking Out: Memories of a Nisei Activist (interview)
• Celine Salazar Parrenas, a straight sex asian love/pilipina (p)ucking poem (poem)
• Trinh T. Minh-ha, It Went by Me (poetry series)
• Sandra Liu, Passion and Commitment: Asian American Women and Hollywood (essay)
• Lisa Lowe, Work, Immigration, Gender: Asian "American" Women (essay)
• Mong Lan, Silence of Form (poem)

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