From Library Journal
Okinawan American Kudaka, herself an author and contributor to this work, assembles both well-known and emerging writers of Asian and Pacific ancestry to present a view of eroticism and love from the Asian American perspective. The more than 80 short stories and poems as well as one play in this anthology include prize winners by the likes of David Henry Hwang. Eight sections represent works ranging from innocently romantic to bawdy and explicit as they explore themes as divergent as first love and living and dying with AIDS both in the United States and around the world. While some of the pieces in this unique collection appear here for the first time, many are reprinted from other collections and magazines. Many of the contributors teach creative writing at American universities; there are biographical sketches of each. For general readers.D.E. Perushek, Univ. of Tennessee Libs., KnoxvilleCopyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

FROM OUR EDITORS

This book displays the rich diversity of erotic literature written by Americans of Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, East Indian, Pakistani, and Amerasian descent. Features stories, essays, and poems by such writers as Frank Chin, Garrett Hongo, Joy Kogawa, Bharati Mukherjee, others, capturing erotic viewpoints on such themes as sexual awakening, identity and exploration, marital betrayal, and interracial love. Written in styles ranging from the lyrical to the lascivious, and from the provocative to the explicit. B&W photos.

ANNOTATION

From ancient China's graphic works of sexology to the Kama-sutra of first-century India to Japan's pillow books and the flourishing sex industry of present-day Thailand, Asian culture has traditionally celebrated the erotic. This groundbreaking anthology of erotic ethnic literature explodes stereotypes while offering a universal insight into intimate relationships.

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Library Journal