The Canon of Asian American Literature

2025/01/01 by Long Le-Khac · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #Asian American and Pacific Histories #Asian Culture and Media Studies #Latin American and Latino Studies

paper · doi:10.18737/092211

Abstract

This dataset traces the Asian American literary canon through nearly 1,900 scholarly citations from 1971 to 2023, capturing which authors and texts have shaped the field over time.

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• 📚 New dataset: The Canon of Asian American Literature From 1971–2023, nearly 1.9k scholarly citations chart the evolving field—spanning nearly 800 authors, 1,000 works, and five decades of canon for [bsky, 22 points, 2 comments]

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