Asian and Asian American Languages, Discourses, and Rhetorics: A bibliography for composition and rhetoric


Rebecca Moore Howard
The Writing Program
Syracuse University



Please note: I'm increasingly using CiteULike and del.icio.us for my bibliographic work. (On both sites you'll need to click on tags of interest.) Browse what's on this page and then check out CiteULike, del.icio.us, CompPile, and the MLA International Bibliography (requires SU ID) for more. A list of all the static bibliographies that I've put online is here.


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Last updated 4 August 2007

Anderson, Kay J.  Vancouver's Chinatown:  Racial Discourse in Canada, 1875-1980.  U Toronto P.  1992. 

Baumgardner, Robert J.  South Asian English:  Structure, Use, and Users.  Champaign:  U Illinois P, 1996. 

Beebe, James, and Maria Beebe.  "The Filipinos:  A Special Case."  Language in the USA.  Ed. Charles Ferguson and Shirley Brice Heath.  322-38.

Beebe, Leslie M.  "Social and Situational Factors Affecting the Communicative Strategy of Dialect Code-Switching."  International Journal of the Sociology of Language 30 (1981):  139-46.

Carter, Robert E.  "The Background to Argument in the Far East."  Perspectives on Written Argument.  Ed. Deborah P. Berrill.  Cresskill, NJ:  Hampton, 1996. 

Cheung, King-Kok.  "The Woman Warrior Versus the Chinaman Pacific:  Must a Chinese American Critic Choose between Feminism and Heroism?"  Conflicts in Feminism.  Ed. Marianne Hirsch and Evelyn Fox Keller.  New York:  Routledge, 1990.  234-54.

Eakin, Emily.  "Writing as a Block for Asians."  New York Times 3 May 2003.  <http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/03/arts/03ASIA.html?8hpib>.  3 May 2003. 

Hesford, Wendy S., and Theresa A. Kulbaga.  "Labored Realisms:  Geopolitical Rhetoric and Asian American and Asian (Im)migrant Women's (Auto)biography."  JAC 23.1 (2003). 

Lu, Min-zhan.  "From Silence to Words:  Writing as Struggle."  College English 49 (April 1987):  437-48. 

Lu, Shujiang.  "Let Wen Shine Forth:  The Chinese Poetic Tradition and the English Composition Course." Composition Forum 14.2 (Fall 2005).

Mao, LuMing.  "Rhetorical Borderlands:  Chinese American Rhetoric in the Making."  College Composition and Communication 56.3 (Feb. 2005):  426-469.

Mao, LuMing.  "Uniqueness or Borderlands?  The Making of Asian-American Rhetorics." Rhetoric and Ethnicity. Ed. Keith Gilyard and Vorris Nunley.  Portsmouth, NH:  Boynton/Cook, 2004.  46-55.

Matalene, Carolyn.  "Contrastive Rhetoric:  An American Writing Teacher in China."  College English 47.8 (December 1985):  789-808.

Mitchell-Kernan, Claudia, and Keith T. Kernan.  "Children's Insults:  America and Samoa." Sociocultural Dimensions of Language Use."  Ed. M. Sanches and B.G. Blounts.  New York:  Academic P, 1975.

Oller, J.W., et al.  "Attitudes and Attained Proficiency in ESL:  A Sociolinguistic Study of Native Speakers of Chinese in the United States."  Language Learning 27 (1977):  1-27.

Ouyang, Huining.  "Rewriting the Butterfly Story:  Tricksterism in Onoto Watanna's A Japanese Nightingale and Sui Sin Far's 'The Smuggling of Tie Co.'"  Alternative Rhetorics:  Challenges to the Rhetorical Tradition.  Ed. Laura Gray-Rosendale and Sibylle Gruber.  Carbondale:  Southern Illinois UP, 2001.  203-219. 

Powers, John H., and Gwendolyn Gong.  "East Asian Voice and the Expression of Cultural Ethos."  Voices on Voice: Definitions, Perspectives, Inquiry.  Ed. Kathleen Blake Yancey.  Urbana, IL:  National Council of Teachers of English, 1994.  202-225. 

Sapp, David.  "Towards an International and Intercultural Understanding of Plagiarism and Academic Dishonesty in Composition:  Reflections from the People's Republic of China."  Issues in Writing 13.1 (2003):  58-79.

Schonberg, Jeff.  "When Worlds Collide:  Rhetorics of Profit, Rhetorics of Loss in Chinese Culture."  Alternative Rhetorics:  Challenges to the Rhetorical Tradition.  Ed. Laura Gray-Rosendale and Sibylle Gruber.  Carbondale:  Southern Illinois UP, 2001.  235-256. 

Shen, Fan.  "The Classroom and the Wider Culture:  Identity as a Key to Learning English Composition."  College Composition and Communication 40 (December 1989):  459-66.

Woo, Celestine.  "Incarnating an Asian American Angel:  'Self-Expression,' Ontology, and Pedagogy."  The Personal Narrative:  Writing Ourselves as Teachers and Scholars.  Ed. Gil Haroian-Guerin.  Herndon, VA:  Calendar Islands, 1999. 

Wu, Hui.  "The Alternative Feminist Discourse of Post-Mao Chinese Writers:  A Perspective from the Rhetorical Situation."  Alternative Rhetorics:  Challenges to the Rhetorical Tradition.  Ed. Laura Gray-Rosendale and Sibylle Gruber.  Carbondale:  Southern Illinois UP, 2001.  219-234. 

Yang, Kuo-Shu, and Michael H. Bond.  "Ethnic Affirmation by Chinese Bilinguals."  Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 11 (1980):  411-25.

Young, Linda W.L.  Crosstalk and Culture in Sino-American Communication.  New York:  Cambridge UP, 1994. 

Young, Morris.  Minor Re/Visions:  Asian American Literacy Narratives as a Rhetoric of Citizenship.  Carbondale:  Southern Illinois UP, 2004.