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This book explores specific novels by Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan and Gish Jen, three Chinese American women writers, with a specific focus on Tan and Jen, who have been inspired by Kingstons writing, their predecessor. All three novelists utilize trickster strategies through characters and narratives that have Sunwukong as a common inspiration. They use his characteristics of inversion to expose and deconstruct essentialist and monolithic views of Asian / Chinese American ethnic identity and to voice their views on ethnicity and gendered racism, particularly in the ways these two concepts...

The man with the funny moustache came to visit me again Tuesday evening. It was the longest day of the year, and the sun was still shining with splendour as it was setting behind Mt. Fuji. He enquired whether he could use some poetic license when writing down my memories. I was hesitant about this at first, so I told him that I would have to think over this for a while. But then I thought, what harm can come from it? Eventually I consented. -Ken Takeda

"I am planning to finish the painting by my son's birthday. It is a painting of the Black Sea in its vastness, and a single ship, a pirate schooner, in the midst of it. The sky is clear, and the sun shines on the ship's mast. It is meant to be a surprise, so I kept it a secret from Elsa, Erdem and the grandchildren. Even Fino doesn't know what I am up to in the attic during the long summer nights. I am planning to call it 'Il Nome del Mare.' Aptly Italian, like that lunatic descendant of Barbaverde, whose deadly tricks on the island were going to cost all of our lives. The days when I was...

Leyli Siirler is the author's collection of poems written solely in Turkish.

This book of fiction is the author's first novella, written in Turkish.