Islanders - Couverture souple

Goh, Teow Lim

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1942280319 ISBN 13 : 9781942280316

Editeur : Bower House, 2016

Synopsis

A blend of fact, fiction, politics, and intimacy this poetry book chronicles a forgotten episode in American history and prefigure today's immigration debates. Between 1910 and 1940, Chinese immigrants to America were detained at the Angel Island Immigration Station in the San Francisco Bay. As they waited for weeks and months to know if they could land, some of the detainees wrote poems on the walls. All the poems on record were found in the men's barracks; the women's quarters were destroyed by a fire. The collection imagines the lost voices of the detained women, while also telling the stories of their families on shore, the staff at Angel Island, and the 1877 San Francisco Chinatown Riot.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Teow Lim Goh is the author of Islanders (Conundrum Press, 2016), a volume of poems on the history of Chinese exclusion at the Angel Island Immigration Station. Her work has been featured in Tin House, Catapult, PBS NewsHour, Colorado Public Radio, and The New Yorker. She lives in Denver.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bower House
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1942280319
• ISBN 13: 9781942280316
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 90
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible