Encyclopedia of Asian-American Literature

the camp experience in comic form, as an absurd predicament. Her illustrations humanize Japanese Americans, and she praises thei ...

escapades—often drunken—comprise the most touching and most humorous episodes. In fiction, Ondaatje (as in Billy the Kid) invest ...

Japan after the war, hiding his ability to speak En- glish and his identity as a Canadian. The novel raises issues of “belonging ...

to make in his work. Ong has addressed issues such as the economic inequality that resulted in the United States’s colonization ...

disease. Tan also writes admiringly of Vladimir Nabokov and the lessons she has learned from reading him. The fifth section, “Lu ...

narrative then shifts to follow the daughter, who has just turned 11 when the family is forced to relocate from the temporary ho ...

northern island of Hokkaido. The young Oyabe soon became disenchanted with his father. After spending several months in an Ainu ...

foray into fiction. An ambitious first novel that is, by turn, both humorous and horrific, My Year of Meats tells the story of a ...

236  P Pak, Gary (1952– ) Considered one of the most important Asian- Hawaiian writers of the day, Gary Pak was born and raise ...

the inhabitants of Kanewai and as he weaves the Hawaiian shamanic tradition with popular culture subtexts such as The X-Files. C ...

Pak, Ty. “A Debt.” Moonbay: Short Stories. New York: Woodhouse, 1999, 25–27. Jinbhum Shin Pangs of Love and Other Stories, The D ...

Frances Park is also the author of WHEN MY SISTER WAS CLEOPATRA MOON, a young adult novel about two Korean-American sisters and ...

Bibliography Park, Linda Sue. “Newbery Medal Acceptance.” Horn Book (July/August 2002): 377–384. ———. Project Mulberry. Boston: ...

Huang, Guiyou, ed. Asian American Autobiographers: A Bio-Bibliographic Sourcebook. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 2001. Hutner ...

adoption of Vietnamese babies—need to be con- textualized within U.S. racism, U.S. intentions in Asia, and the geopolitical rest ...

Picture Bride Cathy Song (1983) Winner of the 1982 Yale Series of Younger Poets Award and the best-known collection of CATHY SON ...

from the San Francisco area whom she believes to be young and successful with his own business. She dreams that she will soon be ...

made to feel no better than a starving dog that tries to ingratiate itself to her; she feels inferior even to crows who can scav ...

novel arrangement challenging for many Ameri- cans as well as Asians. Again in this story, Pittalwala rehearses his regular preo ...

247  Q Qiu, Xiaolong (1953– ) Born in Shanghai, Qiu entered college in 1977 shortly after the Cultural Revolution and took up ...