In an effort to work against the erasure of Asian Americans in literature, national nonprofit organization Kundiman will host its second Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon for Asian American Literature for APAHM. - NBCAsianAmerica
According to Kyle Lucia Wu, programs and communications manager at Kundiman, the idea for the edit-a-thon was driven by the questions: “How do I find books about Asian American writers? Where’s the representation of Asian American characters?” Wu said when she was growing up, the only Asian American characters written by an Asian American author she could think of were from “The Joy Luck Club” by Amy Tan.
“I wanted to be a writer, and all I did was read, but I never considered the possibility that there could be a book centered with a character like me, so when we were thinking about reframing Wikipedia, I was thinking about the reader who might not know about the different resources that exist for finding about writers of color,” she said.
She said that aside from just adding authors and books, they also wanted to be sure to include Asian American literary organizations or publishers such as the Asian American Literary Review and Kaya Press, for which volunteers added pages to Wikipedia during the first edit-a-thon. Other entries that have been added include pages for Justin Chin, Tanwi Nandini Islam, Alice Sola Kim, Rachel Kong, Elaine Castillo, Esme Weijun Wang, Shoba Rao, Fatimah Asghar, Patrick Rosal and Weike Wang.
“I’ve noticed with a lot of writers of colors, sometimes [their pages] can be strangely phrased or insensitive of where they’re from or where their parents are from ... so I think, for us, it’s important to be writing about these writers as writers,” she said. “Sometimes the way they’re phrased can be strange because Wikipedia is edited by a majority of white men, which is another reason this event is important, too.
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