Charlie Chan Is Dead 2: At Home in the World (An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction)

279 Pages·2004·1.31 MB·English

by  Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn

Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
PREFACE
Acknowledgements
Introduction

CUNANAN’S WAKE
FASCINATION, GRAVITY, AND DEEPLY DONE KISS
RICO
HOMECOMING
MELPOMENE TRAGEDY
TWO PARABLES: PARABLE OF THE CAKE
TWO PARABLES: MOON
RED WALL
DOCTOR
THE HULL CASE
DEAD ON ARRIVAL
FORMERLY KNOWN AS BIONIC BOY
SUBMISSION
BABY
WHO’S IRISH?
WAXING THE THING
BECCAH - from COMFORT WOMAN
SEXY
MANGO
AHJUHMA - from NATIVESPEAKER
VOIR DIRE
NO BRUCE LEE
LATE BLOOMER - from WAYLAID
MISTER PORMA
COLD-HEARTED
FOURSCORE AND SEVEN YEARS AGO
THE MANAGEMENT OF GRIEF
FOLLY
VIDEO
FIESTA OF THE DAMNED
SHIPS IN THE NIGHT
SEPARATION ANXIETY - from AMERICAN SON
IMMIGRATION BLUES - from THE MAN WHO (THOUGHT HE) LOOKED
LIKE ROBERT TAYLOR
SURROUNDED BY SLEEP
PAPIER - from GRASS ROOF, TIN ROOF
LIVE-IN COOK - from THE BOOK OF SALT
MS. PAC-MAN RUINED MY GANG LIFE
UNTITLED STORY
EYE CONTACT - an outtake from AMERICAN KNEES
THE BROWN HOUSE
THE KEEPER - from FATHER OF THE FOUR PASSAGES
WHAT IF MISS NIKKEI WERE GOD(DESS)?
THAT WAS ALL

A PERSONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
A PERSONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Copyright © Jessica Hagedorn, 2004
Preface copyright © Elaine Kim, 2004
All rights reserved
Pages 574-576 constitute an extension to this copyright page.
Publisher’s Note
These selections are works of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the
product of the authors’ imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual
persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Charlie Chan is dead 2 : at home in the world : a new anthology of contemporary Asian
American fiction edited with an introduction by Jessica Hagedorn ; with a preface by
Elaine Kim.
p. cm.
“New, revised edition of Charlie Chan is dead”—Introd.
eISBN : 978-1-10116151-7
1. American fiction—Asian American authors. 2. American fiction—20th century.
3. American fiction—21st century. 4. Asian Americans—Fiction.
I. Hagedorn, Jessica Tarahata, 1949-II. Charlie Chan is dead.
PS647.A75C484 2004
813’.54080895—dc22 2003058225

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