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De Lara, Marlo Jessica. "Reclaiming Filipino America through Performance and Film." JOMEC Journal, no. 11 (July 6, 2017): 41. http://dx.doi.org/10.18573/10.18573/j.2017.10142.

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Filipino Americans are the fourth largest migrant group in America and the second largest Asian population in the United States. Migration from the Philippines is constant and has increased dramatically in the last sixty years. Filipino Americans participate as the ‘Asian American’ identity/race but the specificity of Philippine-U.S. relations and migration pathways make this inclusion a misfit. As a former territory and with complex shifting migration policies, Filipinos have been considered by the U.S. government an ambiguous population, falling just out of reach of national visibility. As the population has continued to grow, Filipino Americans have shared narratives and begun conversation to address the constant cultural negotiation and struggles within the social and racial structures of America. Since the 1980s, a Filipino American cultural and artistic movement or ‘moment’, has emerged with artists, dancers, performers, and filmmakers. These artists make critical interventions that disavow the American empire. The works make comment upon the ramifications of being an unrecognized Asian colony and the systemic challenges of immigration assimilation. An example of a work from this cultural moment is Jose Antonio Vargas’ autobiographical documentary Documented (2013). The film, intended as an up close and personal account of an undocumented migrant in the United States, also serves as an example of current Filipino American cultural productivity and visibilization. By studying this artistic movement, one can approach deeper understandings of citizenship and national belonging(s) in the current transnational climate and the border crossings that circumscribe the Filipino American diaspora.

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Alber, Julia M., Chari Cohen, Amy Bleakley, Sanam F. Ghazvini, Brenda Trang Tolentino, Rebeca Almeida, and Beth L. Chance. "Comparing the Effects of Different Story Types and Speakers in Hepatitis B Storytelling Videos." Health Promotion Practice 21, no. 5 (January 19, 2020): 811–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1524839919894248.

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Chronic hepatitis B, a condition associated with severe complications, disproportionately affects Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States. Increasing testing among this population is critical for improving health outcomes. This study compares different types of video narratives that use storytelling techniques to an informational video (control), to examine whether narratives are associated with higher hepatitis B beliefs scores and video rating outcomes. A sample of Asian American and Pacific Islander adults ( N = 600) completed an online survey where they viewed one of four video conditions, three of which included storytelling techniques and one with informational content. Results indicated that parental stories received significantly higher perceived effectiveness ratings ( M = 3.88, SD = 0.61) than the older adult personal stories ( M = 3.62, SD = 0.74), F(3, 596) = 3.795, p = .010. Parental stories also had significantly higher perceived severity scores ( M = 3.83, SD = 0.69) compared to the young adult stories ( M = 3.73, SD = 0.74) and the informational videos ( M = 3.83, SD = 0.69), F(3, 596) = 7.72, p < .001. The informational videos ( M = 4.10, SD = 0.65) received significantly higher message credibility ratings than the older adult personal stories ( M = 3.84, SD = 0.70), F(3, 596) = 4.71, p = .003. Follow-up tests using Bonferroni correction revealed that parental stories ( M = 3.98, SD = 0.64) and young adult personal stories ( M = 3.934, SD = 0.76) scored significantly higher on speaker ratings than the older adult personal stories ( M = 3.698, SD = 0.77). Results suggest that storytelling has the potential for connecting with a specific audience in an emotional way that is perceived well overall. Future research should examine the long-term impact of hepatitis B personal story videos and whether the addition of facts or statistics to videos would improve outcomes.

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Mar, Gary R. "Chinese Virtues, Four Prisons, and the Way On." Journal of Chinese Philosophy 46, no. 1-2 (March 3, 2019): 97–118. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15406253-0460102008.

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How did Chinese virtues inspire the emergence of Asian American philosophy within the American Philosophical Association (APA)? This question might seem a non-starter given the antagonistic disciplinary histories of Asian Studies and Asian American Studies. However, like the families we grew up in, virtues can subtly shape our destinies even if, or perhaps especially if, those virtues are not didactically imposed. In this article, I give a narrative account of how Chinese virtues, exemplified in encounters with Asian American filmmakers, scholars and activists, were inspirational in the struggle to recognize Asian American philosophy within the APA. I also argue that the virtues themselves provide new intellectual perspectives for articulating philosophies of personal identity and public history, scholarship and teaching. These philosophical alternatives to mainstream philosophical views on these topics express core values of Asian American philosophy.

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Wang, Qi, Jessie Bee Kim Koh, and Qingfang Song. "Meaning making through personal storytelling: Narrative research in the Asian American context." Asian American Journal of Psychology 6, no. 1 (2015): 88–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0037317.

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Devarajan, Arthi. "Dancing Krishna in the suburbs: Kinaesthetics in the South Asian American diaspora." Studies in South Asian Film & Media 4, no. 2 (October 1, 2012): 167–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/safm.4.2.167_1.

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This article explores kinaesthesia as a central aspect of religious pedagogy in a transnational Hindu community, through ethnographic observation of American practitioners of Bharatanatyam (classical Indian dance).1 The Natyanjali School of Dance (Andover, Massachusetts, United States) is a small, multigenerational community, comprised of dance teacher Jeyanthi Ghatraju, a group of South Indian first-generation immigrant IT professionals, and their American-born children. Through Bharatanatyam, pedagogical practices of physical training, repetition and constructions of body comportment, students learn South Asian languages, culture and Hindu religious narratives. Additionally, they absorb practices of social organization and moral knowledge through interactions with their teacher, elders and peers. Although studies of kinaesthesia attend to the physical body and its faculties of movement, sense, socialization and cognitive knowledge, the processes by which kinaesthetics inform the construction of religious experience, value, belief and identity remain relatively unexplored. This article examines the construction of Hindu and Indian identity, personal religiosity and morality, through the kinaesthetic pedagogies of basic step (adavu) repetition, the embodied and discursive pedagogies of dramatic gestural narration of sacred stories (natya), and the interpretive and devotional conjuring of expression (abhinaya) inherent in Bharatanatyam.

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Stoican, Adriana Elena. "Creative Pluralism in Indian and Romanian Accounts of Transnational Migration." American, British and Canadian Studies Journal 27, no. 1 (December 1, 2016): 94–116. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/abcsj-2016-0020.

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Abstract The paper offers a comparative perspective on transmigrant cultural identities as illustrated in the works of two contemporary South Asian American and Romanian American authors, Jhumpa Lahiri and Aura Imbăruș. The comparison involves Gogol, a South Asian American character, and Aura, the author of the memoir Out of the Transylvania Night. Although Gogol is a fictional character and Aura is an actual transmigrant, their comparative assessment relies on the assumption that both narratives are inspired by the authors’ background of relocation. Despite their different cultural origins, both authors share thematic aspects related to the dynamics of cultural identity in the context of migration. This paper aims to provide a starting point for an enlarged framework of comparative analysis, in order to foreground intersections between different experiences of cultural negotiation in the context of displacement. Born and raised in America, Gogol is challenged by his cultural multiplicity and strives to suppress elements of his Indian identity. After years of rebelling against his parents’ norms, Gogol shifts to the Bengali model, when his father dies. Once he accepts the relevance of his cultural roots, Gogol is able to plunge into a dimension situated beyond his Bengali and American selves. His transcendent strategy is illustrated by his decision to plunge into a third space of redefinition, suggested by the Russian literature which is appreciated by Gogol’s father. Aura Imbăruș offers the example of a first generation Romanian transmigrant who undergoes voluntary relocation to the United States. Fascinated by the American world, Aura is eager to take over norms of material success and consumerism, overlooking the relevance of her cultural roots. When she undergoes a personal family crisis, Aura eventually reassesses the value of her Romanian background, aiming to reconcile her source culture with her Americanised self. In a manner similar to Gogol’s, Aura manages to integrate American norms of success, while forging enduring bonds with the Romanian American community in California.

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Kim, Dong Sung. "Reading with Minor Feelings: Racialized Emotions and Children’s (Non)agency in Judges 10–12." Biblical Interpretation 28, no. 5 (November 30, 2020): 557–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685152-2805a003.

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Abstract In this article, I read the story of Jephthah and his daughter in Judges 10–12 within the contemporary context of racism and discrimination in the U.S. Particularly focusing on the affective and emotional dimensions of the lived experiences in racially/ethnically minoritized communities, I engage the biblical story with what poet and writer Cathy Park Hong calls, “minor feelings.” Reading the biblical narrative alongside Hong’s crudely personal—and yet pervasively common—accounts of Asian American racial trauma, I critically reflect on the notion of childhood agency, and suggest that the Western conception of agency neither reflects nor promotes the lives of the children in minority groups. In turn, I ask: What if we moved away from the traditional notions of agency and voice in our critical works, and, instead, turned towards emotions, sensations, and other embodied experiences as a site of interpretation, critique, and movement for social change?

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Goldstein, Steven M. "At Cross Purposes: US–Taiwan Relations Since 1942. By Richard C. Bush. [Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2004. xii +287 pp. $27.95. ISBN 0-7656-1372-7.] Beyond Tiananmen: The Politics of US–China Relations, 1989–2000. By Robert L. Suettinger. [Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 2003. xii +556 pp. £29.95, $39.95. ISBN 0-8157-8206-3.]." China Quarterly 180 (December 2004): 1089–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305741004210761.

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These are two very fine books written by individuals who were deeply involved in the making of American policy towards China in the 1990s. From 1997 to 2002, Richard C. Bush served as chairman and managing director of the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT), the semi-official body created in 1979 by the Taiwan Relations Act (TRA) to manage relations with the island in the wake of normalization of relations with the People's Republic of China (PRC). In 1994, Robert Suettinger, a career intelligence officer, joined the staff of the National Security Council at the White House as director of Asian Affairs; a position that he held until he moved to the National Intelligence Council in 1997 (coincidentally, as Richard Bush's replacement).Neither volume is, strictly speaking, a memoir. Bush does draw on his personal experience as a congressional aide during the 1980s and early 1990s and much less so on his years with the AIT. However, the bulk of his study constitutes superbly researched discussions of what he considers to be “relatively unstudied issues” related to the historical evolution of relations between the United States, Taiwan and the People's Republic of China. Suettinger, on the other hand, provides a memoir-like narrative of the years he was in the White House, but relies largely on research, interviews with major participants in the policy process, and his own insights for the remainder of the book. However, although neither author adopts a strictly participant-observer approach, both are clearly drawing on the knowledge acquired during extensive government service to make judgments on the complex issues they address, and it is this wisdom which makes these books essential reading.

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Harper, Karen S. "Southeast Asian Lives: Personal Narratives and Historical Experience." Oral History Review 36, no. 1 (January 1, 2009): 121–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ohr/ohp007.

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Rome, Howard P. "Personal Reflections: Asian American Psychiatrists." Psychiatric Annals 19, no. 12 (December 1, 1989): 626. http://dx.doi.org/10.3928/0048-5713-19891201-04.

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Strevy, Deborah, and Jerry Aldridge. "Personal Narrative Themes of African-American Mothers." Perceptual and Motor Skills 78, no. 3_suppl (June 1994): 1143–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pms.1994.78.3c.1143.

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African-American mothers of low income enrolled in an Even Start program were videotaped as each told a personal narrative to her child. A content analysis of the stories gave three major themes identified by Stahl. Of the 17 personal narratives, 4 were attitude stories, 5 were behavior stories, and 8 were character stories. The importance of using personal narratives is discussed and recommendations for research indicated.

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Perez, Carmela, and Helen Tager-Flusberg. "Clinicians' Perceptions of Children's Oral Personal Narratives." Narrative Inquiry 8, no. 1 (January 1, 1998): 181–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.8.1.08per.

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A diverse group of child clinicians (n — 39) rated paragraph-long transcriptions of two Euro-American, two African-American, and two Latino children's oral narratives. Clinicians were asked to rate the logic, cohesion, and comprehensibility of the stories using 6-point scales. They were also asked to give a rough estimate of the children's IQ, to comment on the existence of emotional/behavioral and/or learning/language problems, and to assign possible diagnoses. The results indicated clinicians' ratings of the Latino narratives were significantly different from ratings of the Euro-American and African-American narratives, as confirmed by Scheffe post hoc analysis. Diagnoses revealed a distribution by ethnicity of children. Euro-Americans received 21 diagnoses, African-Americans received 33 diagnoses, and Latinos received 53 diagnoses. Further, clinicians' ethnicity and gender did not account for any group differences. The implications of these findings are twofold. First, clinicians seem to be unaware of the differences in Latino children's narrative structure, and seem to be penalizing them for not conforming to the Euro-American structure. Second, it appears that clinicians training and practicing in the U.S. tend to adopt a Euro-American perspective which may desensitize them as to the narrative intricacies of their own culture.

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Froese, Jocelyn Sakal. "Drawing new color lines: transnational Asian American graphic narratives." Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics 9, no. 5 (November 26, 2017): 504–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21504857.2017.1407949.

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Bhandari, Nagendra Bahadur. "Family Dynamics: An Intergenerational Study on Asian American Narratives." SCHOLARS: Journal of Arts & Humanities 1 (August 1, 2019): 50–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/sjah.v1i0.34448.

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The relationship in Asian immigrant families ranges from intergenerational and intercultural conflict to mutual understanding over the period of the time. Shaped by different cultural contexts of native and host land, the first and second-generation immigrants have varying world views, perceptions and attitudes rendering conflicts of interests in their priorities. These differences are further widened by their generational differences. However, they negotiate their cultural differences and show mutual understanding, respect for differential priorities and flexibility for co-optation of diverse cultural practices. They involve in dynamic intergenerational relationship full of inconsistencies and contradictions, which keeps of changing in different contexts over the period of time. This article explores the dynamic relationship of the first and second-generation immigrants in Asian-American narratives: The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri, The Bonesetter’s Daughter by Amy Tan, Native Speaker by Change rae Lee and Chorus of Mushrooms by Hiromi Goto. Both generation immigrant characters in these narratives constantly vacillate between the cultural spaces of their home and host countries in their negotiation of intergenerational relationship. This article analyzes the cultural vacillation of immigrants in the critical frame of Stuart Hall’s cultural identity which he conceptualizes in his notion of being and becoming.

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Kitano, Margie K. "Gifted Asian American Women." Journal for the Education of the Gifted 21, no. 1 (October 1997): 3–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/016235329702100102.

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This article presents an analysis of personal, socialization, and structural factors affecting the life-span achievement of 15 Asian American women identified as gifted through a national retrospective study of highly achieving women from African American, Asian American, Latina, and White backgrounds. Interpreted within a cultural-ecological framework, findings support earlier research suggesting that Asian American parents' experiences of discrimination in this country encourage an intense focus on educational achievement and hard work as a way to ensure success. Teachers and schools, which similarly value hard work, reinforce this behavior. However, parents' and teachers' support of these women's academic achievement alone does not fully prepare them for the workplace, where they will need to consider career options, think critically about social issues, and respond effectively to institutional barriers. As adults in the workplace, gifted Asian American women find that hard work alone does not ensure advancement because of personal (e.g., self-doubt) and structural (e.g., stereotyping) obstacles. Nevertheless, gifted Asian American women find the workplace highly satisfying, stimulating, and challenging. Implications for educators are offered.

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Baig, Noorie, Stella Ting-Toomey, and Tenzin Dorjee. "Intergenerational Narratives on Face: A South Asian Indian American Perspective." Journal of International and Intercultural Communication 7, no. 2 (April 3, 2014): 127–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2014.898362.

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Ho, Jennifer Ann. "Unfastened: Globality and Asian North American Narratives (review)." MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. 36, no. 4 (2011): 177–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mel.2011.0069.

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Atkinson, Donald R., Bruce E. Wampold, Susana M. Lowe, Linda Matthews, and Hyun-Nie Ahn. "Asian American Preferences for Counselor Characteristics:." Counseling Psychologist 26, no. 1 (January 1998): 101–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0011000098261006.

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This study used the same paired comparison format used in four earlier studies to survey ethnic minority preferences for counselor characteristics. However, in the current study, a statistical procedure designed specifically for paired comparison data that provides a powerful test of the relationship between preferences for counselor characteristics and selected within-group variables was used to analyze Asian American preferences for counselor characteristics. Similar attitudes and values was found to be the most preferred counselor characteristic for both personal and career problems. Also, preferences for counselor characteristics were found to be related to type of problem (personal or career), participant level of acculturation, and participant sex. Implications for future practice and research are discussed

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Bonn, Gregory, and Romin W. Tafarodi. "Chinese and South Asian Conceptions of the Good Life and Personal Narratives." Journal of Happiness Studies 15, no. 4 (May 28, 2013): 741–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10902-013-9447-6.

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Fahmi, Marwa Essam Eldin. "A Visual Asian American Diaspora: Belle Yang’s Hannah is My Name (2004) and Guene Luen Yang’s American Born Chinese (2006)." English Language and Literature Studies 6, no. 2 (April 28, 2016): 43. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ells.v6n2p43.

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<p>The current study aims at theorizing the question of identity within the framework of postcolonial studies in two visual narratives: Belle Yang’s <em>Hannah is My Name</em> (2004) and Guene Luen Yang’s <em>American Born Chinese</em> (2006). Asian American studies have recently interrogated identity marking a shift from ethnic nationalism to recognition of multiplicity. The study also seeks to counter <em>Orientalist</em> stereotypes in American literature through the analysis and examination of postcolonial Asian American Diaspora to highlight a number of questions: 1) How is the identity of the Asian immigrant’s hybrid visually constructed? 2) How can Asian American visuals be addressed in non-white children’s literature? 3) What nurtures the transnational imaginations of the authors/illustrators in question? 4) What are the ramifications of transnational perspectives on Asian American narratives? 5) What are the nature of belonging and citizenship? The questions are a vehicle to investigate the cultural and ethnic politics of Chinese American literature and to explore new forms of self-identification in American literary discourse. They also yield rich insights into how to practice <em>multiculturalism</em>. What draws the visual narratives in question together is their postcolonial theme of reformulated identity to unsettle dichotomies within Asian American community. Furthermore, the present study explores semiotic systems in terms of image syntax, gestural, spatial and iconic signs to examine the relation between the <em>denotative</em> context of the narrative text and the <em>connotation</em> of the visual text that creates <em>polysemous</em> illustrations and indefinite meaning-making.</p>

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Yeo, HyeJin Tina, Ruby Mendenhall, Stacy Anne Harwood, and Margaret Browne Huntt. "Asian International Student and Asian American Student: Mistaken Identity and Racial Microaggressions." Journal of International Students 9, no. 1 (January 25, 2019): 39–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.32674/jis.v9i1.278.

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This study examines the experiences of Asian American students who are mistaken as Asian international students; it provides insight into domestic students’ perceptions of and potential racial microaggressive experiences of international students. Drawing from racial microaggressions survey data of Asian Americans, this study highlights the multiple layers of overt racism, microaggressions, and xenophobia directed against students who are perceived as Asian international students. The Asian American students’ narratives reveal that international students are often racialized by skin color, English proficiency, and nationality, which reflect U.S. racist framings of Asian Americans. Thus, we argue that racial experiences of Asian international students should be addressed as a part of U.S. racial ideology, notions of Whiteness, and racial microaggressions on campus.

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Chan, Alan Ka Ki, Nolan Zane, Gloria M. Wong, and Anna V. Song. "Personal Gambling Expectancies Among Asian American and White American College Students." Journal of Gambling Studies 31, no. 1 (July 6, 2013): 33–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10899-013-9397-2.

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Lo, Marie. "The Politics of the Visible in Asian North American Narratives (review)." University of Toronto Quarterly 75, no. 1 (2006): 197–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/utq.2006.0127.

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Laflen, Angela. "The Politics of the Visible in Asian North American Narratives (review)." MFS Modern Fiction Studies 51, no. 1 (2005): 201–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2005.0012.

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Suman. "Gendered Migrations and Literary Narratives: Writing Communities in South Asian Diaspora." Millennial Asia 9, no. 1 (April 2018): 93–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0976399617753755.

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Migrations are gendered journeys. During contemporary times when migrations happen due to personal reasons like pursuit of better job opportunities, the spouses, mostly women, face several challenges in finding jobs and sustaining a career. Many of these qualified women often turn to alternate means of finding identity and fulfilment. Writing is one activity that provides them with this sense of purpose and achievement. The personal act of writing a literary text becomes as much a social activity when few of them form writing communities. This socio-literary study begins with an analysis of the social and material conditions that foster gendered migrations, and goes on to analyse writing as an alternate career, the role these gendered writing communities play in the process of writing, publishing and marketing as well as the choice of certain topics, like romance, thus functioning as mini-publishing houses. Through detailed interviews of five women writers of South Asian origin, this paper posits that these popular narratives, the products of these writing communities, are very temporal in nature and a product of interesting intersections between migrations as a condition and the gendered communities.

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Wojdon, Joanna. "The Polish American narratives, memories and identities in the historian’s job." Wrocławski Rocznik Historii Mówionej 6 (October 30, 2016): 67–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.26774/wrhm.146.

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The article concerns different kinds of “personal” (in contrast to “official”) sources used by historians dealing with the post-World War II Polish American history. The Author considers advantages and shortcomings of analyzing personal correspondence, personal memos, diaries and memoirs, formal and informal interviews and other oral testimonies, but also difficulties and problems they bring to a researcher. Studying those types of source is however often crucial in the absence of official archival documents reflecting e.g. the ethnic identity of the large group of the Americans of Polish descent, or the backstage of the process of their assimilation and organization in the United States.

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Min, Pyong Gap, and Rose Kim. "Formation of ethnic and racial identities: narratives by young Asian-American professionals." Ethnic and Racial Studies 23, no. 4 (January 2000): 735–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01419870050033702.

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IYENGAR, KALPANA M. "Cultural Literacy in Asian Indian American Students." Dev Sanskriti Interdisciplinary International Journal 6 (July 31, 2015): 01–09. http://dx.doi.org/10.36018/dsiij.v6i0.60.

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The cultivation of ‘cultural literacy’ in students from multicultural backgrounds may occur outside schooling practices in the US due to curricular framing and a lack of interest in integrating cultural education at schools. ‘Cultural literacy’ warrants student participation and requires a conducive learning environment where multiethnic students can seek inspiration through exploration. The San Antonio Writing Project organizes literacy project called the Kahani Project, and it fosters creativeness and facilitates authentic expression of cultural funds of knowledge of Indian American students. Performing arts including dance and music engage Indian students and enable them to learn about their culture, heritage, and religion. The Kahani Project is culturally contextualized writing activity, where Asian Indian American students write about their generational practices that may not addressed in schools in the US. This qualitative study explores two narratives written for the Kahani Project. The study utilized Leiblich et al., holistic content analysis to arrive at themes, categories, and meta categories. The findings revealed Indian students’ willingness to preserve their culture through writing about Indian dance and music. The second inference of this study was that Indian students’ heritage is neglected and excluded in US curriculum.

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Mills, Monique T., Ruth V. Watkins, and Julie A. Washington. "Structural and Dialectal Characteristics of the Fictional and Personal Narratives of School-Age African American Children." Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools 44, no. 2 (April 2013): 211–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1044/0161-1461(2012/12-0021).

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Purpose To report preliminary comparisons of developing structural and dialectal characteristics associated with fictional and personal narratives in school-age African American children. Method Forty-three children, Grades 2–5, generated a fictional narrative and a personal narrative in response to a wordless-book elicitation task and a story-prompt task, respectively. Narratives produced in these 2 contexts were characterized for macrostructure, microstructure, and dialect density. Differences across narrative type and grade level were examined. Results Statistically significant differences between the 2 types of narratives were found for both macrostructure and microstructure but not for dialect density. There were no grade-related differences in macrostructure, microstructure, or dialect density. Conclusion The results demonstrate the complementary role of fictional and personal narratives for describing young children's narrative skills. Use of both types of narrative tasks and descriptions of both macrostructure and microstructure may be particularly useful for characterizing the narrative abilities of young school-age African American children, for whom culture-fair methods are scarce. Further study of additional dialect groups is warranted.

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Shearer, David. "Heroes Sung and Unsung: Explorers’ Narratives of Mongolia, 1890s to the 1930s." Asiatische Studien - Études Asiatiques 73, no. 4 (April 26, 2020): 761–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/asia-2019-0062.

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AbstractPetr Kuzmich Kozlov and Roy Chapman Andrews were well known figures in the world of popular culture, exploration, and science of their respective homelands, Imperial Russia and America. In the early years of the twentieth century, both were famous for spectacular discoveries in the deserts of Mongolia – Kozlov in archeology and Andrews in paleontology. Both were celebrity explorers in their native countries when they met in Mongolia in 1922, and both kept field journals and notes from which they produced popularly published accounts of their travels and exploits. Like all the great explorer-adventurers, Andrews and Kozlov made themselves the hero of their own narratives (Maclulich 1977). And yet, neither could have achieved what he did, nor likely have met, had it not been for a third individual, one who was indispensable to both explorers, but an individual who has nearly disappeared from the historical record. Tsokto Garmaevich Badmazhapov, a native of Buryatia, in Siberia, acted as an intermediary for both Kozlov and Andrews. He played a central role in the stories of the two explorers, the unsung hero in their narratives, but he was a remarkable individual in his own right – a successful and polyglot commercial agent, a go-between, an explorer, and a Mongolian government official. In the early 1920s all three individuals were prominent figures in Mongolia, and yet by the mid-1930s, all three had been excluded from the lands that drew them. This article explores the interaction of these three, the visions of Inner Asia that motivated and separated each, and the circumstances – scientific, geo-political, and personal – that both produced and then discarded these remarkable people.

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Khek Gee Lim, Francis. "Book Review: Southeast Asian Lives: Personal Narratives and Historical Experience: Edited by Roxana Waterson." Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia 25, no. 1 (April 30, 2010): 133–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1355/sj25-1f.

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Bradford Wainwright, Angela. "Gender Differences in the Narrative Productions of African American Adults." American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology 28, no. 2 (May 27, 2019): 623–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1044/2018_ajslp-18-0153.

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Purpose The narrative is an important component of cognitive–linguistic assessment of nonmainstream populations and provides a valuable basis on which to conduct cross-ethnic/cultural comparisons. Given that there is limited information on the narrative characteristics of African American adults, this study was designed to describe the nature of narrative productions among African American men and women and to determine if gender differences exist in those productions. Method Seventy-six African American adults—40 women (ages 46–86 years) and 36 men (ages 45–87 years)—recruited from Washington, DC, and the Metropolitan area took part in the study. Participants produced a complex story retelling and a personal narrative of their choosing. All narratives were transcribed orthographically, parsed into T-units, and analyzed for narrative superstructure. Narratives were then examined by establishing the quantity of information, distribution of information, and African American English (AAE) density and usage. Results The results of the study demonstrated that women produced more information across all measures of quantity and narrative conditions. Gender differences were observed where men produced narratives that were brief and succinct whereas women produced longer, more elaborative narratives. Moreover, women produced more information across constituent units of the narratives. Although the use of AAE and its effect on quantity and distribution of information were negligible, the results demonstrated that men produced more occurrences of AAE than women. Conclusions This study demonstrated that women were more talkative, produced more information, took more time to produce their narratives, and told stories that were more descriptive, evaluative, and reflective than those of their male counterparts. This study also suggests that personal narratives may be more robust in characterizing the process of African American adult narrative production whereas story retelling may be a good contrastive element in further describing narrativization. Supplemental Material https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.7905377

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Celinska, Dorota. "Personal Narratives of African American Students with Learning Disabilities: Challenging “Privileged” Patterns?" Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal 23, no. 1 (2018): 24–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.18666/ldmj-2018-v23-i1-8420.

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Ty, Eleanor. "Rethinking the Hyphen: Asian North American and European Ethnic Texts as Global Narratives." Canadian Review of American Studies 32, no. 3 (January 2002): 239–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/cras-s032-03-01.

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Roan, Jeanette. "Drawing New Color Lines: Transnational Asian American Graphic Narratives ed. by Monica Chiu." Journal of Asian American Studies 20, no. 2 (2017): 304–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jaas.2017.0027.

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Zhang, Benzi. "The Politics of the Visible in Asian North American Narratives by Eleanor Ty." ESC: English Studies in Canada 30, no. 4 (2004): 231–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/esc.2004.0076.

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Melzi, Gigliana. "Cultural Variations in the Construction of Personal Narratives: Central American and European American Mothers' Elicitation Styles." Discourse Processes 30, no. 2 (September 2000): 153–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1207/s15326950dp3002_04.

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White, Aaronette M. "African American Feminist Masculinities: Personal Narratives of Redemption, Contamination, and Peak Turning Points." Journal of Humanistic Psychology 46, no. 3 (July 2006): 255–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022167806286262.

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Leong, Jeffrey Thomas. "A Personal and Social Transformation." Ethnic Studies Review 42, no. 2 (2019): 49–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/esr.2019.42.2.49.

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The author reflects on his life growing up as an Asian American in California, his experiences during the 1960s, and his involvement in the 1969 Third World Strike at UC Berkeley, as well as the transformative role these experiences played in his life.

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Hickey *, Gail. "‘This is American get punished’: unpacking narratives of Southeast Asian refugees in the US." Intercultural Education 16, no. 1 (March 2005): 25–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14636310500061656.

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Edwards, Korie L., and Rebecca Kim. "Estranged Pioneers: The Case of African American and Asian American Multiracial Church Pastors." Sociology of Religion 80, no. 4 (2019): 456–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/socrel/sry059.

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AbstractThis article draws upon 121 in-depth interviews from the Religious Leadership and Diversity Project (RLDP)—a nationwide study of leadership of multiracial religious organizations in the United States—to examine what it means for African American and Asian American pastors to head multiracial churches. We argue that African American and Asian American pastors of multiracial churches are estranged pioneers. They have to leave the familiar to explore a new way of doing church, but their endeavors are not valued by their home religious communities. African American pastors face challenges to their authenticity as black religious leaders for leading multiracial congregations. Asian American pastors experience a sense of ambiguity that stems from a lack of clarity about what it means for them to lead multiracial congregations as Asian Americans. Yet, despite differences in how they experience this alienation, both are left to navigate a racialized society where they are perceived and treated as inferior to their white peers, which has profound personal and social implications for them.

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Chu, P. E. "Partly Colored: Asian Americans and Racial Anomaly in the Segregated South; Ends of Empire: Asian American Critique and the Cold War; Unfastened: Globality and Asian North American Narratives." American Literature 83, no. 2 (January 1, 2011): 461–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1266180.

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Yoong, Diane (Di), and Krystal M. Perkins. "Flowing between the Personal and Collective: Being Human beyond Categories of Study." Societies 10, no. 4 (November 27, 2020): 94. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/soc10040094.

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Caught between different structures of identity hierarchies, queer and trans Asian American experiences have been systematically erased, forgotten, or purposely buried; as such, their experiences have often been minimized. In this paper, we seek to reimagine personhood in psychology through the perspectives of queer and trans Asian American subjectivities. Beginning with a brief discussion on the impacts of coloniality on conventional conceptualizations of who counts as human, we then consider how this is taken up in psychology, especially for multiply marginalized folx. Moving beyond the possibilities of representational politics, we explore possible decolonial frameworks and alternative methodologies in psychology to center queer and trans Asian American personhoods and to see them as more than just research participants.

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Wang, Chih-ming. "Transpacific Asymmetries." boundary 2 46, no. 3 (August 1, 2019): 89–115. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/01903659-7614159.

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In honor of the late Masao Miyoshi, whose work has opened a transpacific dimension in Asian American studies, this essay first explores the notion of asymmetry, which is seminal to his critical vision, to build an analytical framework for understanding and evaluating the transnational impulses in recent Asian American literature. Using asymmetry as an analytical lens, it then provides a critical interpretation of Ruth Ozeki’s important novel A Tale for the Time Being (2013) to consider the intricate connections between Asia and North America that are embedded in the subterranean history of war, migration, resistance, and hope. By foregrounding the entangled, even complicit, transpacific transactions in Asian American narratives, this essay will not only speak to the complexities of the transpacific turn in Asian American studies but will also remind us of the importance of Miyoshi’s off-centered approach to questions of culture, history, and politics undeterred by borders.

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Riney, Timothy J. "Repairing Tales from Japan: Changes Over Time in Personal Narratives." Research in Language 9, no. 2 (December 30, 2011): 19–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10015-011-0022-0.

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At two different times, Time 1 and Time 2, 13 participants in Japan (8 Japanese and 5 Americans) were asked to spontaneously respond in English to this prompt: “Tell me about one of the most exciting or dangerous moments in your life.” The Japanese responded during their first and fourth years of college, which involved an interval of 42 months. The Americans were native speakers of English and responded earlier and later in their one year study abroad program in Japanese language and culture. Three questions addressed by this paper were the following: (a) What types of topics and narrative structures characterize these 26 stories? (b) What types of speaker-initiated repairs appear, and are the repairs the same or different at Time 1 and Time 2? (c) How are the repairs related to different listener (American, Japanese, Filipino, and Taiwanese) assessments of the intelligibility of the narratives?

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Mills, Monique T., Leslie C. Moore, Rong Chang, Somin Kim, and Bethany Frick. "Perceptions of Black Children's Narrative Language: A Mixed-Methods Study." Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools 52, no. 1 (January 18, 2021): 84–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1044/2020_lshss-20-00014.

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Purpose In this mixed-methods study, we address two aims. First, we examine the impact of language variation on the ratings of children's narrative language. Second, we identify participants' ideologies related to narrative language and language variation. Method Forty adults listened to and rated six Black second-grade children on the quality of 12 narratives (six fictional, six personal). Adults then completed a quantitative survey and participated in a qualitative interview. Results Findings indicated that adults rated students with less variation from mainstream American English (MAE) more highly than students with greater variation from MAE for fictional narratives, but not for personal narratives. Personal narratives tended to be evaluated more favorably by parents than teachers. Black raters tended to assign higher ratings of narrative quality than did White raters. Thematic analysis and conversation analysis of qualitative interviews supported quantitative findings and provided pertinent information about participants' beliefs. Conclusion Taken together, quantitative and qualitative results point to a shared language ideology among adult raters of variation from MAE being more acceptable in informal contexts, such as telling a story of personal experience, and less acceptable in more formal contexts, such as narrating a fictional story prompted by a picture sequence.

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Rose, Heidi M. "Inventing one's “voice”: The interplay of convention and self-expression in ASL narrative." Language in Society 25, no. 3 (September 1996): 427–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404500019230.

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ABSTRACTDrawing on the work of Jean-François Lyotard and Mikhail Bakhtin, this study analyzes personal narratives created and performed in American Sign Language (ASL) by three Deaf college students. These narratives can be viewed as “boundary phenomena” in that they reflect themes common to the Deaf oral tradition, yet were deliberately poetically created, extensively rehearsed and publicly performed, based on fact, and created with a specific rhetorical purpose. The texts are examined for literary features and themes, as well as for the key elements of performance and social-cultural context. Discussion centers on the ways in which students' individual styles emerged from exposure to the thematic and stylistic techniques of professional Deaf artists. (American Sign Language, personal narrative, narrative pragmatics, speech genres, intertextuality)

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West, Elizabeth J. "Community and Naming: Lived Narratives of Early African American Women’s Spirituality." Religions 11, no. 8 (August 18, 2020): 426. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel11080426.

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Through the story of Francis Sistrunk, nineteenth century enslaved and later freedwoman in east central Mississippi, this essay illustrates that, despite few surviving written narratives of early black women’s spirituality, their experiences can emerge from the silences. Much like paleontologists who recreate narratives of the past through fossils, in the present world of literary studies, we have the advantage of an expanse of resources that, when pieced together, can convey voices from the past to the present. This includes resources such as extant oral and written communal and family narratives, generational ideals and practices, digitized records from official and personal documents, and the recent emergence of DNA technology that provides its own narratives. From the earliest arrivals to the Americas, African diasporic populations maintained an understanding of community and spirit as an integrated oneness empowered through the word, particularly in the word-act of naming. Francis’ story reveals that this spiritual ethos was a generative source, not only for survival, but for some black women it was a mechanism for inscribing their presence, their narratives, and their legacies for future generations. Francis Sistrunk’s story re-emerges through the mining of sources such as these, and reveals that enslaved black women reached for and seized power where they found it to preserve the record of their existence and humanity and to record the story of their enslavers’ injustices.

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Ty, Eleanor. "Asianfail in the City: Michael Cho’s Shoplifter." Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas 4, no. 1-2 (March 4, 2018): 45–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/23523085-00401003.

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Michael Cho’s graphic novel Shoplifter is a fine example of “Asianfail,” where the heroine fails to excel as Asian North Americans are “supposed to.” Narratives of failure are either rare or untold in Asian North American literature because Asians are often stereotyped as the successful model minority. Yet Shoplifter is more than simply a story about a twenty-something woman’s search for identity. With its rich details and striking colours, Cho’s visual language suggests that the graphic novel is also about contemporary urban life: its strange beauty and darkness, its complexities and hollowness. Shoplifter is a narrative about the development of a young Asian North American woman as well as a tribute to—and critique of—big city life.

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Hayot, Eric. "The Asian Turns." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 124, no. 3 (May 2009): 906–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2009.124.3.906.

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Everybody Loves a CrisisThe story of what's what in asian american studies is like the story of the profession at large: no one thinks in a vacuum. But the current drift in literary scholarship toward questions of transnationalism and globalization arrives at shores long explored by scholars who work on Asian America and the Pacific. Much of this familiarity has to do with the material history of their subjects, the ways in which questions of diaspora and integration, relations between the flows of people and the flows of things, and the narratives of international politics and imperialist violence constitute the ground of Asian America and indeed of the concept of the Pacific as an ocean, a sea of islands, a limit to westward expansion, and the lubricated surface of a certain transcultural history. The critical insights that unfold from the labor of Asian Americanist thought, like those gained through the study of African America and the Caribbean, do not add ethnographic detail to some larger and fundamentally established picture of the history of the United States or global modernity: they change the picture. They reframe it.

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