Southeast Asia Literature by Women
(Available in English)

compiled by Julie Shackford-Bradley
December, 1996

Table of Contents:

Burma


Novels

Law-Yone, Wendy 1993. Irrawaddy Tango. New York: Alfred Knopf.

Ma Ma Lay 1991. Not Out of Hate. (trans: Margaret Aung-Thwin). Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Monographs in International Studies, Southeast Asia Series, No. 88.

Sargeant, Inge 1994. Twilight Over Burma: My Life as a Shan Princess. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. (216 pp).


Short Stories

Ataram, "Hard Labor" Inked Over, Ripped Out: Burmese Story Tellers and the Censors. New York: PEN American Center Freedom-to-Write Report. ).

Mo Cho Thinn, "Heartless Day" Inked Over, Ripped Out .

Nu Nu Yi, "He's Not My Father" Inked Over, Ripped Out .

San San Nweh, "The Children Who Play in the Back Alleyways" Inked Over, Ripped Out .


Letters/Autobiography

Aung San Suu Kyi 1991 (Philip Kraeger, et al, eds). Freedom From Fear and Other Writings. New York: Viking.


Background Materials and Literary Criticism

Allott, Anna J., ed. 1993. Inked Over, Ripped Out: Burmese Story Tellers and the Censors. New York: PEN American Center Freedom-to-Write Report.

Maung Myint Thein, collector and translator, 1987. Burmese Folk Songs. Calcutta: Writers Workshop.

Mi Mi Khiang 1984. The World of Burmese Women. London: Zed.

Muller, Helen, 1994. "Women in Urban Burma: Social Issues and Political Dilemas. Women's International Forum. Vol. 17, No. 6 (Nov-Dec), 609-620).

Mya Than, 1986. "The Role of Women in Rural Burma: A Case Study." Sojourn, Vol. 1, No. 1 (97-108).

Nemoto, Kei and Midori Inouye Minamida 1996. Aung San Suu Kyi and Contemporary Burma. Osaka, Japan: Kansai Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, Osaka Univeristy of Foreign Studies

Mirante, Edith 1989. The Revolutionary Life: Women of the Kachin Liberated Area. Cranford, NJ: Project Maje.

Mirante, Edith T. Women Speak out for peace in Burma. Cranford, NJ: Project Maje.

Cambodia


Orality

Neak, Touch 1990. The Mountain of the Men and the Mountain of the Women: A Cambodian Folktale. (retold by Alice Lucas, trans. Samol Tan). San Fransisco: Voices of Liberty.


Background Materials

Aspara: The Feminine in Cambodian Art. An Exhibition and Publication on the Arts of Cambodian Women in the LA Area, Dec. 1-1987-Jan 6, 1988. LA: Women's Building.

Indonesia


Novels

Dermout, Maria 1967 (orig 1958, in Dutch). The Ten Thousand Things.. New York: Ballantine.


Short Stories

Basino, Titis 1992. "The Charm." in Menagerie I. ed. John H. McGlynn. Jakarta: Lontar Foundation (231-244) [orig. "Susuk," 1984].

__________ 1983 "Her" (trans. Florence Lamoureaux). In the Surau: Seven Islamic Short Stories from Indonesia. ed. Soenjono Dardjowoidjojo and Florence Lamoureaux. Manoa, Hawaii: Southeast Asian Studies, Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Hawaii. [orig "Dia,"1964.]

Chang, Queeny 1982 (orig??) "The Lake." Archipel 24 (247-260).

Chudori, Leila S. 1992. "Paris, June, 1988." in Menagerie I. ed. John H. McGlynn. Jakarta: Lontar Foundation (79-92) [orig. "Paris, June, 1988," 1988].

___________ 1992. "The Purification of Sita." in Menagerie I. ed. John H. McGlynn. Jakarta: Lontar Foundation. (93-100) [orig. "Air Suci Sita," 1988].

Dini, N. H. 1992. "Broken Wings." in Menagerie I. ed. John H. McGlynn. Jakarta: Lontar Foundation (101-110) [orig. "Jatayu," 1956].

________ 1992. "Warsiah." in Menagerie I. ed. John H. McGlynn. Jakarta: Lontar Foundation (111-126) [orig. "Janda Muda," 1983].

________ 1993. "The Keeper of the Temples." in Menagerie II. ed. John H. McGlynn. Jakarta: Lontar Foundation (49-60) [orig. "Penanggung Jawab Candi," 1973].

Kertapati, S. Rukiah. "Mak Esah" (unpublished, trans Sylvia Tiwon).

Totilawati Tjitrawasita 1993. "Jakarta." in Menagerie II. ed. John H. McGlynn. Jakarta: Lontar Foundation (99-108) [orig. Javanese)].


Letters/Autobiography

Budiardjo, Carmel 1996. Surviving Indonesia's Gulag: A Western Woman Tells her Story. London; NY: Cassell.

Kartini (trans, Joost Cote) 1995. On Feminism and Nationalism: Kartini's Letters to Stella Zeehandelaar 1899-1903. Clayton, Victoria: Monash Asia Institute, Monash University.

Kartini (trans, Joost Cote) 1992. Letters from Kartini: An Indonesian Feminist, 1099-1904. Clayton, Victoria: Monash Asia Institute, Monash University.

Kumar, Ann, (ed). "Record of a Lady Soldier." Indonesia

Partini 1986. Partini: Recollections of a Mangkunegaran Princess (as told to Roswitha Pamoentjak Singgih). Jakarta: Penerbit Djambatan, 1986.

Schenkhuizen, Marguerite 1993. Memoirs of an Indo Woman: 20th Century Life in the East Indies and Abroad. (ed and trans: Lizelot Stout van Balgosy). Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Center for International Studies.

Sintha Melati 1986 [orig date?]. "In the Service of the Underground: The Struggle against the Japanese in Java." in Local Opposition and Underground Resistance to the japanese in Java 1942-1945. ed. Anton Lucas. Clayton, Victoria: Monash Papers on Southeast Asia No. 13 Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Monash University (123-235).

Williams, Walter 1990. "Women and Work in the Third World: Indonesian Women's Oral Histories." Journal of Women's History, 2; No 1 (Spring) 183-195.


Background Materials and Literary Criticism

Scholten, Elsbeth and Anke Niehof, eds. 1987. Indonesian Women in Focus: Past and Present Notions. Dordrecht, Holland: Foris Publications.

Sears, Laurie 1996. Fantasizing the Feminine in Indonesia. Durham and London: Duke University Press.

Sidharta, Myra 1982. "Introduction to the works of Queeny Chang." Archipel 24 (235-240).

Tetreault, Mary Ann ed. 1994. Women and Revolution in Africa, Asia, and the New World. Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press.

Malaysia


Short Stories

Amin, Adibah 1988. "Night of Reckoning." in An Anthology of Contemporary Malaysian Literature. Ed Muhammad haji Salleh. Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka. (53-60).

Hashim, Khadijah. 1988. "A Quid of Sirih, A Bowl of Water." in An Anthology of Contemporary Malaysian Literature. Ed Muhammad haji Salleh. Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka. (93-101).


Literary Criticism

_________________ 1989. Uncharted Sisterhood: Lost and Neglected Women Writers from Malaysia and Singapore. Singapore: Centre for Advanced Studies, National University of Singapore.

Woodward, Nancy Hatch 1993. "Fiction in English: Women Writers of Malaysia and Singapore." Hecate v.19, n.2 October (140-149).

Woodward, Nancy Hatch 1994. (Part 2): "Fiction in English: Women Writers of Malaysia and Singapore." Hecate v.20, n.1 May (164-174).

Yu Wang Luen 1982. "Women Writers of Malaysian Chinese Literature." Archipel 24 (235-240).

Philippines


Novels

Brainard, Cecilia Manguerra 1991. Song of Yvonne. Quezon City: New Day.

Brainard, Cecilia Manguerra 1988. Woman with Horns. Quezon City: New Day.

Espina-Moore, Lina 1992. The Honey, The Locusts. Quezon City: New Day.
--Japanese occupation

Hagedorn, Jessica 1990. Dogeaters. New York: Pantheon.

Nakpil, Carmen Guerrero 1990. The Rice Conspiracy. Metro Manila: Vessel Books.

Rosca, Ninotchka 1992. Twice Blessed: A Novel. New York: Norton.

Rosca, Ninotchka 1988. State of War: A Novel. New York: Norton.

Tiempo, Edith L. 1992. The Alien Corn. Quezon City: New Day.

Ty-Casper, Linda 1991. Common Continent: Selected Stories. Manila: Ateneo de Manila Press.

Ty-Casper, Linda 1988. A Small Party in a Garden. Quezon City, New Day.
--fictional story of Imelda Marcos' "Girl Friday"


Short Stories

Alfon, Estrella D. (1984). "Magnificence" (Brown River, White Ocean, 91-94).

Benitez, Paz Marquez (1925). "Dead Stars" (Brown River, White Ocean, 3-12).

Cordero-Fernando, Gilda (1962). "People in the War" (Brown River, White Ocean, 138-145).

Latorena, Paz (1937). "Desire" (Brown River, White Ocean, 25-28)

Rosca, Ninotchka (1983). "Generations" (Brown River, White Ocean, 193-199).

Sulit, Loreto Paras (1930). "Harvest" (Brown River, White Ocean, 20-24).


Short Stories Collections

1995. Philippines Studies Vol. 43. Special Edition: New Writing from the Philippines.
--Includes: Mayette Baynga; Reine Arche Melvin; Cristina Pantoja-Hidalgo; Linda Ty-Casper; Marianne Villaneuva.

Alfon, Estrella D. 1984. Magnificence and Other Stories.

Francis, Luis H. 1993. Brown River, White Ocean: An Anthology of Twentieth Century Philippines Literature in English. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Manlapaz, Edna Zapanta, ed. 1994. Songs of Ourselves: Writings by Filipino Women in English. Manila: Anvil Publishing, Inc.

Rosca, Ninotchka 1983. The Monsoon Collection. St. Lucia; New York: University of Queensland Press. Asian and Pacific Writing, 20.


Letters/Autobiography

Alfan, Estrella 1980. Magnificence and other Stories. Manila: Regal Publishers.

Castillejos, Dahlia 1992. The Story I will Tell my Children. Northern Luzon, Philippines. Polaris Publishers.
--(women revolutionaries of the Ilocos region of the Philippines)

Garcellano, Rosario 1991. Mean Streets. Manila: Kalikasan.

Gonzales, Barbara 1991. How Do You Know Your Pearls Are Real? Manila: Anvil Press.

Hidalgo, Cristina Pantoja 1991. Five Years in a Forgotten land. Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press.

Hidalgo, Cristina Pantoja 1987. Korean Sketchbook. Seoul: Yong Alan Publishers.

Hidalgo, Cristina Pantoja 1984. Sojourns. Quezon City: New Day.

Lolarga, Elizabeth and Anna Leah Sarabia, eds. 1992. Telling Lies. Quezon City: Circle Publications.

Loo Bee Geok 1989. I am a Filipino Maid. Singapore: Path Seekers.

Lucero, Rosario Cruz 1990. Her Story. Manila: Institute of Women's Studies, St. Scholastica College.

Mayuga, Sylvia. 1981. Spy in my Own Country. Manila..?

Nakpil, Carmen Gurrero 1973. A Question of Identity. Metro Manila: Vessel Books.

_________________ 1963. Woman Enough and Other Essays. Manila: Vibal Publishers.

Suarez, Domini Torrevillas 1989. Sounds of Silence, Sounds of Fury. Quezon City: New Day.

Tuvera, Kerima Polotan 1975. Adventures in a Foreign Country. Quezon City: Alemars Publishing.


Background Materials and Literary Criticism

Brainard, Cecilia Manguerra 1993. Fiction by Filipinos in America, Quezon City: New Day.

Kalaw, Eva V. 1995. "Images of Women in Paz Latorena (1908-1953)." Philippine Studies. Vol. 43 (623-649).

--includes list of short stories published in newspapers and journals by the writer from 1927-1940s.

Hidalgo, Cristina Pantoja 1992. "Home and Exile in the Autobiographical Narratives of Filipino Women Writers." Pilipinas, No. 19, Fall (25-38).

Kintanaar, Thelma B. et al 1994. Emergent Voices: Southeast Asian Women Novelists. Quezon City: Univresity of the Philippines Press (distributed in the US by University of Hawaii Press).

Manlapaz, Edna Z. 1993. Angela Manalang Gloria: A Literary Biography. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press.

Pineda, Rosalinda 1992. "Tracing a Hidden Tapestry." Women Reading ...Feminist Perspectives on Philippine Literary Texts. Ed. Thelma Kintanar. Quezon City: University of the Philippines Press.

Ventura, Sylvia Mendez 1994. Feminist Readings of Philippines Fiction: Critique and Anthology. Diliman, Quezon City: University of Philippines Press.


Folklore

Bejarano, Valerie Slaughter, et al, eds. 1992. Sevn Stories from Seven Sisters: A Collection of Philippines Folklore. Santa Monica, CA: Phil-Am Women Writers and Artists.

Singapore


Short Stories

Lim, Catherine 1979. "Miss Pereira" in Little Ironies (16-26)

________________. "The Jade Pendant" in Little Ironies (80-86).

________________. "Adeline Ng Ai Choo in Little Ironies (63-67).

________________. "The Teacher" in Little Ironies (13-15).

________________. "The Taximan's Story" in Little Ironies (76-79).

Ong Choo Suat "Check Mate" in Singapore Short Stories, Volume 2 (47-54).

___________ "The Crooked Shrine" in Singapore Short Stories, Volume 2 (55-65).

___________ "The Glass Cage" in Singapore Short Stories, Volume 2 (66-80).

Tan, Nella "Heat Wave" in Singapore Short Stories, Volume 2 (112-120).


Short Stories Collections

Heng, Geraldine, ed. 1976. The Sun in her Eyes: Stories by Singapore Women. Singapore: Woodrose Publishing.

author? 1979. Little Ironies: Stories of Singapore. (ed?) Singapore: Heineman Ed. Books

Lim, Shirley 1982. Another Country and Other Stories. Singapore: Times Books International.

Yeo, Robert, ed. 1978. Singapore Short Stories, Volume 2. Singapore, Heineman Educational Book.


Letters/Autobiography

Lim, Betty 1994. A Rose on my Pillow: Recollections of a Nyonya. Singapore: Armour Press.

Lim, Janet 1985. Sold for Silver: An Autobiography. Singapore; NY: Oxford University Press.

Morley, Patricia 1994. My Other Family: An Artist-Wife in Singapore. NY: St. Martin's Press.


Literary Criticism

Geok-Lin Lim, Shirley 1993. "Up Against the National Canon: Women's War Memoirs from Malaysia and Singapore." Journal of Commonwealth Literature v. 28 n.1 August (47-64).

_________________ 1989. Uncharted Sisterhood: Lost and Neglected Women Writers from Malaysia and Singapore. Singapore: Centre for Advanced Studies, National University of Singapore.

Woodward, Nancy Hatch 1993. "Fiction in English: Women Writers of Malaysia and Singapore." Hecate v.19, n.2 October (140-149).

Woodward, Nancy Hatch 1994. (Part 2): "Fiction in English: Women Writers of Malaysia and Singapore." Hecate v.20, n.1 May (164-174).

Thailand


Orality

Gesick, Lorraine 1995. In the Land of Lady White Blood: Southern Thailand and the Meaning of History. Southeast Asia Program: Cornell.


Novels

Dokmaisot 1992 (pen name for Bupphaa Kunjara Nimmamhaeminda (1905-1963) A Secret Past (trans by Ted Strehlow). Ithaca: Cornell Southeast Asia Program.

Surangkhanang, K. 1994 [orig, 1937]. The Prostitute. (trans. David Smyth). Kuala Lumpur: Oxford Paperbacks.


Short Stories

Doh Mai Sod "The Good Citizen" in Treasury of Thai Literature (28-40).

Kanha Kiengsiri "The Grandmother" in Treasury of Thai Literature (??).

M. L. Buppha Nimmanhemindr" excerpt from Such is the Word in Treasury of Thai Literature (??)

M. L. Boonlue Kunjura Debyasuvan 1987. "The Enchanted Cooking Spoon." Modern Thai Literature with an Ethnographic Interpretation. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.


Short Stories Collections

Kepner, Susan, trans. and ed. 1996. The Lioness in Bloom: Modern Thai Fiction about Women. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Treasury of Thai Literature: The Modern Period. Bangkok: National Identity Board, Office of the Prime Minister, 1988.


Letters/Autobiography

Bilmes, Pongsuwan T., trans. and ed. 1982.. The Autobiography of Lady Siphroma Kridakon. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, Southeast Asia Paper No. 22.

Ithinanthaveerachai, Manthana, trans. 1995. Our Lives, Our Stories. (White Ink). Bangkok: Foundation for Women.


Background Materials and Literary Criticism

Harrison, Rachel 1995. "The Writer, the horeshoe crab, his 'golden blossom' and her clients: tales of prostitution in contemporary Thai short stories." South East Asian Research. Vol. 3 #2, September (125-152).

Kabilsingh, Chutsmarn 1991. Thai Women in Buddhism. New York: Parallax Press.

Vietnam


Oral Histories

Film: Trinh T. Minh-ha Surname Viet, Given Name Nam.


Novels

Duong Thu Huong 1993. Paradise of the Blind. (trans: Phan Huy Duong and Nina McPherson). New York: Penguin.

Duong Thu Huong 1995. Novel without a Name. (trans: Phan Huy Duong and Nina McPherson). New York: William Morrow.


Short Stories

Duong Thi Minh Huong (Duong Thi Xuan Quy) "The Wild Flower" in Vietnamese Short Stories, (965-971).

Mot Doi Nguoi 1994. "One's Life." The Vietnam Forum: A Review of Vietnamese Culture and Society. No. 14 (82-91).

Nguyen Thi Ngoc Tu "Morning" in Vietnamese Short Stories, (987-993).

Nguyen Thi Vinh (Le Kin Nga) 1953. "Two Sisters" (Vietnamese Short Stories, 60-68).

Nha Ca (Tran Thi Thu Van) c.1972. "A Story for Lovers" (Vietnamese Short Stories, 128-137).


Short Stories Collections

Banerian, James, ed and trans. 1986. Vietnamese Short Stories. San Jose, CA: Van Dan Publishing.


Letters/Autobiography

Chan Khang Cao Ngoc Phuong 1993. Learning True Love: How I Learned and Practiced Social Change in Vietnam. Berkeley, CA: Parallax Press.

Elliot, Mai, ed, and trans. 1976. No Other Road to Take: Memoir of Mrs. Nguyen Thi Dinh. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Data Paper Series.

Nguyen Thi Thu-Lam 1989. Fallen Leaves: A Vietnamese Woman Reminisces about her life before and after the fall of Saigon. Southeast Asian Studies, Yale University.

Viet Nam Women's Union (date?). Glorious Daughters of Vietnam.


Background Materials and Literary Criticism

Film: As the Mirror Burns

Hue-Tam Ho Tai 1994. "Duong Thu Huong and the Literature of Disenchantment." The Vietnam Forum: A Review of Vietnamese Culture and Society. No. 14 (82-91).

Nguyen Khac Vien and Huu Ngoc 1982. Vietnamese Literature: Historical Background and Texts . Hanoi: Red River Foreign Language Publishing House.

Tetreault, Mary Ann ed. 1994. Women and Revolution in Africa, Asia, and the New World. Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press.


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