Tilting the Continent - Southeast Asian American Writing (Paperback, 1st ed)

Cultural Writing. Asian American Studies. "Tilting the Continent" is the first collection to bring to the American literary awareness the poetry, short stories, and personal essays of established, as well as new authors of Southeast Asian descent -- not only recent arrivals, but also second, third, and fourth-generation authors. This anthology reminds us of a Southeast Asian past and present composed of polyethnic, multilingual, and rapidly modernizing societies. But it is also an inherently American phenomenon.