Encyclopedia of Asian-American Literature

empathy from the reader. Na’s second novel, WAIT FOR ME (2006), signals the author’s bold departure from other Korean-American y ...

Nampally Road Meena Alexander (1991) Set in Hyderabad, India, Nampally Road is MEENA ALEXANDER’s first novel. It is narrated by ...

collection of Swamiji’s stories collectively demon- strates “the Hindu ascetic as simpleton, charlatan, saint, and storyteller.” ...

Filipino woman being interviewed as a potential mail-order bride; a Japanese child in Hiroshima, running scared as the bombs dro ...

Kwang’s ggeh, a Korean-style private bank that pays interest to its members on a revolving basis. After a series of disasters, K ...

to fail to please him, but they share a moment of peace after Young’s death. For the first time, the father comes to watch his s ...

Ngor, Haing (ca. 1947–1996) Born in Samrong Young, a village south of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Ngor earned a medical degree from th ...

editor of Literature of the Hundred Flowers (1981), a two-volume selection and translation of the his- tory, criticism, fiction, ...

much their lives are in limbo, or how divided their sensibilities and allegiances are, they are dignified and noble in their sea ...

culture, and Nye explores such topics as death, vi- olence, the planting of a fig tree, peace, and pain. The poem “Arabic” begin ...

also written, directed, and acted in several inde- pendent films including Forgotten Valor (2001), costarring Soon-Tek Oh, and O ...

Throughout his career as a poet and English professor at Keio University in Tokyo, Yone No- guchi continued to publish in Englis ...

as an American at school, cannot truly define him- self. No-No Boy opens with the return of 25-year- old Ichiro to his parents’ ...

single part of my multiple selves.” In addition to her own biracial background, her extended fam- ily also draws on many other c ...

Bibliography Howie, Mindy S. “Naomi Shihab Nye,” April 9, 1999. VG: Voices from the Gaps: Women Artists and Writers of Color. Av ...

223  O Obasan Joy Kogawa (1985) Narrated by Naomi Nakane, a third-generation Japanese Canadian, who in 1972 faces her uncle Is ...

unsaying the dominant historical narrative of in- ternment,” and her narrative consequently “resists the totalizing tendencies o ...

Driven out of Phnom Penh, Oeur, his preg- nant wife, and their son miraculously survived six forced-labor camps over the next fo ...

Okada, John (1923–1971) The eldest of three boys born to Japanese immi- grant parents who owned a boardinghouse, Okada was born ...

visits her apartment, thinking she is the one Fili- pino nurse who got away from the mass murder. The one-woman play is a black ...