A revisão literária asiático-americana
A Asian American Literary Review é um espaço para escritores que consideram a designação “asiático-americano” um ponto de partida frutífero para a visão artística e a comunidade. Ao apresentar o trabalho de escritores estabelecidos e emergentes, a revista pretende incubar diálogos e, igualmente importante, abrir esses diálogos a públicos regionais, nacionais e internacionais de todos os círculos eleitorais. Ele seleciona trabalhos que são, como disse certa vez Marianne Moore, “uma expressão de nossas necessidades... [e] sentimentos, modificados pelos insights morais e técnicos do escritor”.
Publicado semestralmente, AALR apresenta ficção, poesia, não ficção criativa, arte em quadrinhos, entrevistas e resenhas de livros. O Descubra Nikkei apresentará histórias selecionadas de suas edições.
Visite o site para obter mais informações e assinar a publicação: www.asianamericanliteraryreview.org
Stories from this series
Instruções para todas as pessoas de ascendência muçulmana
13 de Fevereiro de 2011 • Tyrone Nagai
COMANDO DE DEFESA OCIDENTAL E QUARTO EXÉRCITO ADMINISTRAÇÃO DE CONTROLE CIVIL EM TEMPO DE GUERRA Presídio de São Francisco, Califórnia 16 de maio de 2012 INSTRUÇÕES PARA TODAS AS PESSOAS DE MUÇULMANO ANCESTRALIDADE Morando na seguinte área: Toda aquela parte do condado de King, estado de Washington, dentro dessa fronteira, começando em um ponto a meio caminho entre as cidades de Tacoma e Seattle (a leste de Des Moines) onde a rodovia US 99 cruza a rodovia estadual de Washington …
Poems by Hiromi Itō -- from Wild Grass on the Riverbank - Part 2
12 de Agosto de 2012 • Hiromi Itō
Read Jeffrey Angles’ short essay about Wild Grass on the Riverbank >> Mother Leads Us to the Wasteland Where We Settle Down Mother led us along and we got on boardWe got on and off againBoarding cars and busses and planesThen more buses and trains and cars I was beginning to think that life would go on forever, it would go on forever, but one day it stopped all of the sudden, that day wasn’t especially different from all the others …
Poems by Hiromi Itō -- from Wild Grass on the Riverbank - Part 1
5 de Agosto de 2012 • Hiromi Itō
Read Jeffrey Angles’ short essay about Wild Grass on the Riverbank >> Mother Leads Us on Board Mother led us along And we got on board We got on, got off, then on againWe boarded cars and bussesWe boarded planes Then more buses and trains and cars The place where we arrived was a building full of muffled voices, it had a cold corridor where people had gathered in droves, they were all looking confused, they were all looking confused as they didn’t …
Hiromi Itō - from Wild Grass on the Riverbank
29 de Julho de 2012 • Jeffrey Angles
Born in Tokyo in 1955, Itō Hiromi is one of the most important women poets of contemporary Japan. Itō rose to prominence in the 1980s with a series of dramatic collections of poetry that described sexuality, pregnancy, and feminine erotic desire in dramatically direct language. Her willingness to deal with touchy subjects such as post-partum depression, infanticide, and queer sexual desire took Japan—a nation more used to images of women as proud wives, mothers, and quiet caregivers—by surprise and earned …
Poems by Amy Uyematsu
22 de Julho de 2012 • Amy Uyematsu
Orchid Season in Mr. Ikeda’s Garden : The “Welcome” sign still hangs abovehis garden gate though koi no longer swimin the emptied pondand hummingbirdsdo not return at spring some say the beesare disappearing too but Mr. Ikeda’s orchidscan still fill a greenhouse : White with its bold yellow throat The palest pink with violet veins Jungle green freckled withginger and maroon What could be better than choosingthe most gorgeous Or be lost in so much luxurious profusion : In Japanese legend, life’s bountyfor a …
Asian American Literature Forum Response by Anna Kazumi Stahl - Part 3
15 de Julho de 2012 • Anna K. Stahl
Read part 2 >> Now, to return to the issue posed in this forum’s prompt: in my case, I must try to find an instance in which both a generational difference and a national-cultural one revealed their criteria and influence. And there was a specific instance, an event I participated in several years ago, in 2004, for the “Japan Theme Day” at the Buenos Aires International Book Fair. I was invited together with an Argentine Nisei, Maximiliano Matayoshi, a talented young …