Screen LibraryBig little man : in search of my Asian self /
"A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist's memoir, in the spirit of Richard Rodriquez's Hunger for Memory and Nathan McCall's Makes Me Wanna Holler--an intimate look at the mythology, experience, and psyche of the Asian American male."--
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Mariner Books,
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| Publisher Address: | Boston : |
| Publication Dates: |
2018. ©2014 |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First Mariner Books edition. |
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| Summary: |
"A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist's memoir, in the spirit of Richard Rodriquez's Hunger for Memory and Nathan McCall's Makes Me Wanna Holler--an intimate look at the mythology, experience, and psyche of the Asian American male."-- "Why do so many people find Asian women sexy but Asian men sexless? Alex Tizon's family emigrated from the Philippines when he was four. He quickly learned to be ashamed of his face, his skin color, his height. In movies and on television he saw Asian men as 'servants, villains, or geeks, one-dimensional, powerless, sneaky little men.' His observations of sex and the Asian American male -- as funny as they are fierce -- include the story of his own quest for love during college in the 1980s. It was a tortured tutorial on stereotypes that still make it hard for Asian men to get the girl. And |
| Item Description: | "Included in this new edition of Big Little Man is Alex Tixon's 'My Family's Slave' - 2017's most read digital article. Published only weeks after Tizon's death in 2017, it delivers a provocative, haunting and ultimately redemptive coda." -- from back cover |
| Carrier Form: | 289 pages ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: |
9781328460141 (paperback) : 1328460142 (paperback) 9780547450483 (hardback) 0547450486 (hardback) |
| Index Number: | E184 |
| CLC: | K837.128.9 |
| Call Number: | K837.128.9/T625 |
| Contents: | Killing Magellan -- Land of the Giants -- Orientals -- Seeking Hot Asian Babes -- Babes, Continued -- Asian Boy -- Tiny Men on the Big Screen -- Its Color Was Its Size -- Getting Tall -- Wen Wu -- Yellow Tornado -- "What Men Are Supposed to Do" -- "One of Us, Not One of Us" -- Big Little Fighter -- Coda: My Family's Slave -- Author's Note. |