Lawson Fusao Inada
Biographic Data
| ID | 1132803 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lawson Fusao Inada |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lawson Fusao |
| FAMILY NAME | Inada |
| SIGNATURE | INADA L F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lawson Fusao Inada is professor of English, Southern Oregon State College, is the author of Before the War: poems as they happened (New York: William Morrow, 1971), and co-editor of Aiiieeeee! and The Big Aiiieeeee!. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Aiiieeeee!
In the eyes of mid-twentieth-century white America, “Aiiieeeee!” was the one-dimensional cry from Asian Americans, their singular expression of all emotions—it signified and perpetuated the idea of Asian Americans as inscrutable, foreign, self-hating, undesirable, and obedient. In this anthology first published in 1974, Frank Chin, Jeffery Chan, Lawson Inada, and Shawn Wong reclaimed that shout, outlining the history of Asian American literature …
Two Poems
Two Poems
Visit the WLT website to read Todd Stewart’s photo-essay on the conjunction of geography, autobiography, and metaphor in Inada’s work. above Todd Stewart, “Fence Line, Tule Lake Relocation Center, 2001,” from Placing Memory: A Photographic Exploration of Japanese American Internment (University of Oklahoma Press, 2008). Lawson Fusao Inada was born in Fresno, California, and as a child during World War II, he was imprisoned in California, Arkansas…
Only What We Could Carry
Eric Walz; Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience, Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 32, Issue 3, 1 August 2001, Pages 38
Turning It over
Shrinking the Pacific
Memory
A Letter to the Editor
Reflections on War
Resources for Chinese and Japanese American Literary Traditions
(1981). Resources for Chinese and Japanese American Literary Traditions. Amerasia Journal: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 19-31
The Wonder
Grateful here; Starfighter; Night song in Asian America; City letter
Grateful here; Starfighter; Night song in Asian America; City letter." Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, 4(3), pp. 56–57
Aiieeeee! an introduction to Asian-American writing
Asian-Americans are not one people but several, Chinese-Americans, Japanese-Americans, and Filipino-Americans. Chinese and Japanese Americans have been separated by geography, culture, and history from China and Japan for seven and four generations respectively. They have evolved cultures and sensibilities distinctly not Chinese or Japanese and distinctly not white American. Even the Asian languages as they exist today in America have been adjust…
Aiieeeee! an introduction to Asian-American writing
Asian-Americans are not one people but several, Chinese-Americans, Japanese-Americans, and Filipino-Americans. Chinese and Japanese Americans have been separated by geography, culture, and history from China and Japan for seven and four generations respectively. They have evolved cultures and sensibilities distinctly not Chinese or Japanese and distinctly not white American. Even the Asian languages as they exist today in America have been adjust…
Grateful here; Starfighter; Night song in Asian America; City letter
Grateful here; Starfighter; Night song in Asian America; City letter." Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, 4(3), pp. 56–57
Aiieeeee! an introduction to Asian-American writing
Asian-Americans are not one people but several, Chinese-Americans, Japanese-Americans, and Filipino-Americans. Chinese and Japanese Americans have been separated by geography, culture, and history from China and Japan for seven and four generations respectively. They have evolved cultures and sensibilities distinctly not Chinese or Japanese and distinctly not white American. Even the Asian languages as they exist today in America have been adjust…
The Wonder
Resources for Chinese and Japanese American Literary Traditions
(1981). Resources for Chinese and Japanese American Literary Traditions. Amerasia Journal: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 19-31
Reflections on War
Turning It over
Shrinking the Pacific
Memory
A Letter to the Editor
Only What We Could Carry
Eric Walz; Only What We Could Carry: The Japanese American Internment Experience, Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 32, Issue 3, 1 August 2001, Pages 38
Two Poems
Two Poems
Visit the WLT website to read Todd Stewart’s photo-essay on the conjunction of geography, autobiography, and metaphor in Inada’s work. above Todd Stewart, “Fence Line, Tule Lake Relocation Center, 2001,” from Placing Memory: A Photographic Exploration of Japanese American Internment (University of Oklahoma Press, 2008). Lawson Fusao Inada was born in Fresno, California, and as a child during World War II, he was imprisoned in California, Arkansas…
Aiiieeeee!
In the eyes of mid-twentieth-century white America, “Aiiieeeee!” was the one-dimensional cry from Asian Americans, their singular expression of all emotions—it signified and perpetuated the idea of Asian Americans as inscrutable, foreign, self-hating, undesirable, and obedient. In this anthology first published in 1974, Frank Chin, Jeffery Chan, Lawson Inada, and Shawn Wong reclaimed that shout, outlining the history of Asian American literature …
History (7 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (5 works) · History (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works)