Voices of Angel Island : inscriptions and immigrant poetry, 1910-1945 / Charles Egan.
"An annotated anthology of poems and prose inscribed on the walls of the Angel Island Immigration Station and published in ethnic newspapers, describing the experiences of Asian immigrants "becoming American.""--
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| Language: | Multiple languages English |
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Multiple languages |
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This book includes the English translation of selected poems along with the text in its respective original language. While Chinese remains the dominant language on the source of the selection, Japanese is also strongly represented, and Russian, English, Spanish, Italian, French, German, Punjabi (both Gurmukhi and Urdu scripts), Bengali, and Korean are also found. |
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New York, NY :
Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Inc,
2021.
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| Physical Description: | xi, 342 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Japanese inscriptions, 1910-1940. Wall inscriptions
- Prose and poetry from Nichibei Shimbun
- Korean inscriptions, 1910-1940. Wall inscriptions
- Poetry from Sinhan Minbo
- Chinese inscriptions, 1910-1940. Wall inscriptions
- Other materials
- Other inscriptions, 1910-1940. Russian wall inscriptions
- Poems from Russkii Golos
- South Asian wall inscriptions
- Poems from Ghadar de Gunj
- European languages
- World War II wall inscriptions, 1942-1945. By Japanese Hawaiians
- By prisoners-of-war
- By post-war deportees
- Endnotes (including locations of wall inscriptions)
- Appendices. Poem numbers in Island, 1st and 2nd editions
- Wall locations of Island poems (Island order)
- Wall locations of Island poems (wall order)
- Tet Yee manuscript poems and locations
- Smiley Jann manuscript poems and locations
- Wall locations of pictures.