Blus Hanging

Download or read book Blu's Hanging written by Lois-Ann Yamanaka and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1998-07 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set on the Hawaiian island of Moloka'i, after the death of their mother and withdrawal of their grief-stricken father, "Blu's Hanging" tells "a poignant yet unsentimental tale" ("San Francisco Chronicle") about the three children left behind.

Download or read book Heads By Harry written by Lois-Ann Yamanaka and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2000-03-07 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You can always count on a crowd outside Heads by Harry, the Yagyuu family's taxidermy shop in Hilo, where the regulars gather every day to drink beer, eat smoked meat, and pontificate into the pau hana hours. But above the shop, where the family lives, life isn't so predictable. Toni Yagyuu, the middle child, has enough on her hands dealing with her budding diva of a little sister. But it is the men in her life that really have her running in circles: a flamboyant older brother who wants to be a hairdresser, a stubborn father who refuses to accept her into the family business, and the Santos brothers--two pig-hunting, ex-high school football players who don't know what to think of their headstrong, outspoken neighbor.

Download or read book Behold the Many written by Lois-Ann Yamanaka and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2007-01-23 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behold the Many is the eerily beautiful story of three young sisters, Anah, Aki, and Leah. In 1913, they are sent away from their family for treatment for tuberculosis to an orphanage in Hawaii's Kalihi Valley. Of the three, two will die there, in spite of the nuns' best efforts to save them, and only Anah, the eldest, will grow to adulthood. But the ghosts of the dead children are afraid to leave the grounds of St. Joseph's, which is the only place they have known as home, and as Anah prepares to begin married life away from the orphanage, these ghost children grow angry. Desperate for the love of this girl who has communicated with them since her childhood, jealous of her ability to live in the physical world, and terrified of losing her, the ghosts are determined to thwart Anah's happiness. One of them places a curse on her that will reverberate through her future and that of her new family. As Anah struggles to appease the dead and to quiet her own guilt for living, it becomes apparent that only through one of her own daughters can redemption be attained. Poignant, lyrical, and utterly compelling, Behold the Many is a stunning new novel from the critically acclaimed author Lois-Ann Yamanaka.

Download or read book Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers written by Lois-Ann Yamanaka and published by Picador. This book was released on 2006-01-24 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her name is Lovey Nariyoshi, and her Hawai'i is not the one of leis, pineapple, and Magnum P.I. In the blue collar town of Hilo, on the Big Island, Lovey and her eccentric Japanese-American family are at the margins of poverty, in the midst of a tropical paradise. With her endearing, effeminate best friend Jerry, Lovey suffers schoolyard bullies, class warfare, Singer sewing classes, and the surprisingly painful work of picking on a macadamia nut plantation, all while trying to find an identity of her own. At once a bitingly funny satire of haole happiness and a moving meditation on what is real, if ugly at times, but true, Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers crackles with the language of pidgin--Hawai'i Creole English--distinguishing one of the most vibrant voices in contemporary culture. Stories from this enduring novel have been adapted into the film Fishbowl, by groundbreaking director Kayo Hatta.

Download or read book Saturday Night at the Pahala Theater written by Lois-Ann Yamanaka and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kala gave me any kine advice especially about Filipinos when I moved to Pahala -- Kala: sitting on our bikes by the Catholic church -- Kala: captain of the volleyball team -- Kala: Saturday night at the Pahala Theatre -- Kala: grad party -- Tita: the bathroom -- Tita: Japs -- Tita: user -- Tita: on fat -- Tita: boyfriends -- Girlie: Monday after school -- Girlie and faso face the music -- Girlie and Asi Frenz4-Eva -- Tongues – Parts -- Boss of the food -- Chicken pox -- Yarn wig -- Lickens -- Dead dogs RIP -- Prince PoPo, Prince Jiji -- Haupu Mountain -- Pueo don't fly -- Turtles -- Kid -- Glass -- My eyes adore you -- Ravine -- Empty heart -- Name me is.

Download or read book Imagine Otherwise written by Kandice Chuh and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2003-04-17 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVA critical examination of what constitutes the varied positions grouped together as Asian American, seen in relation to both American and transnational forces./div

Download or read book The Cultural Capital of Asian American Studies written by Mark Chiang and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originating in the 1968 student-led strike at San Francisco State University, Asian American Studies was founded as a result of student and community protests that sought to make education more accessible and relevant. While members of the Asian American communities initially served on the departmental advisory boards, planning and developing areas of the curriculum, university pressures eventually dictated their expulsion. At that moment in history, the intellectual work of the field was split off from its relation to the community at large, giving rise to the entire problematic of representation in the academic sphere. Even as the original objectives of the field have remained elusive, Asian American studies has nevertheless managed to establish itself in the university. Mark Chiang argues that the fundamental precondition of institutionalization within the university is the production of cultural capital, and that in the case of Asian American Studies (as well as other fields of minority studies), the accumulation of cultural capital has come primarily from the conversion of political capital. In this way, the definition of cultural capital becomes the primary terrain of political struggle in the university, and outlines the very conditions of possibility for political work within the academy. Beginning with the theoretical debates over identity politics and cultural nationalism, and working through the origins of ethnic studies in the Third World Strike, the formation of the Asian American literary field, and the Blu’s Hanging controversy, The Cultural Capital of Asian American Studies articulates a new and innovative model of cultural and academic politics, illuminating the position of ethnic studies within the American university.