TY - BOOK AU - Chua, Cheng Lok, AU - Lim, Shirley, TI - Tilting the continent: Southeast Asian American writing SN - 898232066 AV - PS 508.A8 .T47 2000 PY - 2000/// CY - Minneapolis, MN PB - New Rivers Press KW - American literature KW - Asian Americans N1 - Includes bibliographical references N2 - 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 ER -