TILTING THE CONTINENT: SOUTHEAST ASIAN AMERICAN LITERATURE
Edited by by Shirley Geok-lin Lim & Cheng Lok Chua
published by New Rivers, dist. by Talman. 2000. c.398p. ed. . LC 99-68471. ISBN 0-89823-206-6. $18.95Review by Library Journal, August 2000 v125 i13 p104
COPYRIGHT 2000 Cahners Business InformationThis anthology of American writers originally from Southeast Asia (Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaya, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam) includes poems and short stories by 41 "emerging" writers in English. The anthology has been divided into themes such as "Family," "Eating" "The Different Past," and "Returnings." Some of the writers are already well known (editor Lim, Marianne Villanueva), and the others, with one or two exceptions, have already been published. All the writers deal with making a life in the United States while recognizing their differences, adjustments, and traumas. Particularly poignant are poems and stories by Anh Quynh Bui, Aurora Harris, Hanh Hoang, Joseph O. Legaspi, Lim, Ira Sukrungruang, and Villanueva; but all the works are well written and thoughtful. The editors, both professors of literature at California universities, have chosen well. Recommended for public and academic libraries.
--Kitty Chen Dean, Nassau Community Coll., Garden City, NY
