亚太裔美国人传统月必读书籍
2019年5月发布
里维拉（Takeo Rivera）是波士顿大学英语、女性、性别和性新濠影汇线上赌场研究的助理教授，教授亚裔美国文学、当代戏剧、酷儿理论和科技文化等课程。 他目前的著作项目是《模范少数族裔受虐：亚裔美国人的男子气概和种族形式的反常》，主要新濠影汇线上赌场研究亚裔美国人在戏剧、小说、电子游戏、图画小说和纪录片等一系列媒体上的文化生产、表演和性行为。 他也是一位屡获殊荣的剧作家，他的作品曾在纽约、波士顿、旧金山湾区和洛杉矶上演。
现在是五月，这意味着是亚太裔传统月！ 受非裔美国人历史月的启发，APA传统月旨在引起人们对美国亚裔美国人和太平洋岛民的历史、斗争和当代问题的关注。 在仇外情绪加剧的时代，除了对移民和难民人口的拘留，亚裔美国人和太平洋岛民的历史比以往任何时候都更有意义。 探索这些问题的一种方法是通过不同时间、种族和地点的亚裔美国人和太平洋岛民文学。 这个领域是广阔的，任何清单都不可避免地是不够的，但是如果你想尝试一些APA阅读，这里有一些快速的提示！ 除了一些例外（比如第一个选择），我尽量选择那些在主流中不是特别出名，但对APA文学领域仍然非常重要的文本。
If you want an introduction…
两个非常不同的切入点，但这两个文本经常是当代亚裔美国文学读者的起点。 在美国出生的华人 is a youth graphic novel that poignantly discusses the experience of otherness for a Chinese American boy, while 北京! is the controversial but groundbreaking 1974 anthology that assembled key short stories, poems, and novel excerpts under the official banner of “Asian American” for one of the first times in history (be sure to pick up the brand-new third edition from the University of Washington Press, which offers amazing new historical contextualization by Tara Fickle).
右：Frank Chin等人的aiieeeee ！：美国亚裔作家选集（第三版）。
If you want a classic…
“经典”有不同的原因，因为它们写于不同的时代，但肯定是基础的。 Bulosan’s semiautobiographical 美国在心中 is a Steinbeckian foray into a Filipino migrant’s experiences with exploitative labor conditions across a number of low wage industries before the Second World War. 爱工作与此同时，还有一本三里木谷（Janice Mirikitani）的诗集。三里木谷是亚裔美国人运动（Asian American Movement）中最重要的活动诗人之一，她的许多诗歌构成了最终被自我认定为亚裔美国人文学的许多基础。
右图：Janice Mirikitani的《爱工作》。
If you want an epic…
如果你想要更深入的探索，看看这两个中的一个。 Karen Tei Yamashita’s magnum opus uses the decade-long fight to save the International Hotel–a low-income housing facility that was home to hundreds of Filipino seniors in San Francisco–to produce a brilliant genre-breaking epic that effectively tells the story of the early Asian American literary movement. Meanwhile, Kiana Davenport’s 鲨鱼的对话 offers a gorgeous multigenerational Hawai’ian family epic that begins in the 19th century and never holds back in its power.
Right: Kiana Davenport’s 鲨鱼的对话
If you want brilliant experimentation…
长期以来，APA文学一直是作家实验的场所，而这两本书是亚裔美国人经典中最引人注目的，尽管方式非常不同。 The impact of Dictee, written by the late great multidisciplinary Korean American artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, cannot be understated, nor easily described; 这是对战争、语言和创伤的一次引人注目的实验性思考。 R. Zamora Linmark’s 卷舌发R音, meanwhile, belongs as much to the canon of queer literature as it does to APA lit, tracing the lives of working-class queer Filipinx children in Hawai’i with equal amounts humor and brutality, switching between different styles of prose and poetry at the turn of a dime.
Right: R. Zamora Linmark’s 卷舌发R音
If you want masterful short stories…
优秀的短篇小说集在APA文献中比比皆是，但很难不推荐这两本。 山本是在日裔美国人被拘留期间幸存下来的最重要的作家之一，他以细微的差别和优雅的低调，出色地捕捉了日裔美国人在战前、战时和战后的生活瞬间，从各种心理复杂性的角度处理了厌女症和边缘化等问题。 Jhumpa Lahiri (GRS’93, UNI’95,’97), meanwhile, is a household name for a reason, and that reputation rightfully began when she won the Pulitzer for 疾病翻译, a stunning collection of transnational tales focused on Desis and Desi Americans contending with loss, sex, class boundaries, and more. 拉希里也经常把她的故事设定在波士顿，所以我相信她的作品对梗狗们有特殊的吸引力。
Right: Jhumpa Lahiri’s 疾病翻译
If you want something hilarious…
亚太裔美国人有着令人自豪的喜剧传统。 这一点在韩ong和Young Jean Lee的讽刺作品中得到了充分的体现。 Ong’s 固定器曹国伟 is an outstanding skewering of American orientalist mystique, following a feng shui con man as he plays to stereotype to milk the New York elite. Young Jean Lee, recently in the national spotlight for being the first Asian American woman playwright to be produced on Broadway, wrote 龙飞天歌 as an exercise to write the play that she most despised to write–the result is a brutally cynical but absolutely hilarious satire of the APA literary tradition, as well as an incisive critique of racial spectatorship
Right: Young Jean Lee’s Songs of the Dragons Flying Up to Heaven and Other Plays
If you want groundbreaking poetry…
在过去的几十年里，优秀的APA诗歌出现了爆炸式的增长，优秀的年轻诗人不胜枚举，但我必须至少提请注意这三位。 Malhotra’s Isako Isako contends with the Japanese American internment, providing a multigenerational lyrical take on a trauma that reverberates through bodies, hearts, and minds long after the camps are over. 埃里克·陈（Eric Tran）的作品集最近才出版，反映了他作为一名越南裔美国酷儿精神病学家的视角，展现了他挖掘人心的技巧。 And Duy Doan, whom some alumni might recognize as the former facilitator of the BU Creative Writing Program’s Favorite Poem Project, captures the gestalt of diaspora beautifully in his Yale Series of Younger Poets-winning collection 我们玩游戏. And there are so many more–check out Kundiman and 灯笼评论 for all of your APA poetry needs.
Middle: Eric Tran’s The Gutter Spread Guide to Prayer
Right: Duy Doan’s 我们玩游戏
If you want science fiction…
APA科幻小说是一个蓬勃发展但却未被充分重视的分支类型。 Fans of the hit sci-fi film 到来 will recognize Ted Chiang’s 你的生活和他人的故事, whose titular entry was the basis of the film (spoiler alert: the short story is better than the movie, of course). 蒋是一位思想作家，他也知道如何用辛酸和远见来写作，所以这本书绝对是一种阅读的乐趣。 Yoon Ha Lee’s Machineries of Empire trilogy (which begins with Ninefox策略) is a naval space opera delight with vastly imaginative worldbuilding and mind-bending physics, inflected heavily by Lee’s own identity as a Korean American transgender writer with a background in engineering. And scholar-activist-poet Margaret Rhee explores the intersections between race and sexuality as much as between human and machine within her riveting collection 爱,机器人.
Middle: Yoon Ha Lee’s Ninefox策略
Right: Margaret Rhee’s 爱,机器人
And if you want to join us for a conversation…
Llê’s 我们都在找的歹徒 is nothing short of riveting, a stunningly beautiful portrait of a Vietnamese refugee child coming of age, haunted by trauma, trying to make sense of who she is in an initially unfamiliar and frequently unfriendly America. 当难民在全球范围内受到诋毁，亚裔美国人成为广泛攻击的特别目标时，《黑帮》对我们这个时代尤为重要。 这就是为什么我们将在下个月举办一场在线图书讨论！
与里维拉先生一起庆祝亚太裔美国人传统月，参加特别讨论Lê Thi Diem Thúy的“我们都在寻找的歹徒”。