Encyclopedia of Asian-American Literature

Hunted by the Triad, which fears her husband’s testimony, she finds safety with a former suitor, who is now a successful entrepr ...

249  R Rachlin, Nahid (1947– ) Rachlin was born in Ahvaz, a small oil-produc- ing state in southwestern Iran, and raised in a ...

anthology How I Learned to Cook and Other Writ- ings on Complex Mother-Daughter Relationships. Her works of short fiction have a ...

but of the modern human experience in general, forever encountering absurdity and relentlessly striving toward ultimate success ...

California, moved to Hawaii with her family after their release from internment during World War II. After attending Wellesley C ...

vanished father. Told in lyrical language, the play is an examination of the trauma of assimilation and the obliterating effect ...

with Jose Maria Sison entitled JMS: At Home in the World, which has been hailed as a masterpiece. This work traces the life of J ...

of her first novel, Shinju, in 1994, New York Times critic and historian F. G. Notehelfer expresses his “crotchety” chagrin at s ...

has taught writers’ workshops at a number of col- leges and writing programs. She is currently the president of the California W ...

257  S Saiki, Patsy Sumie (1915–2005) Writer and educator Patsy Sumie Saiki was born on March 15, 1915, on the island of Hawai ...

One of the powerful ways in which the novel engages the effects of the violence on Japanese im- migrant lives is through the por ...

Ling, 215–237. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992. Jinah Kim Sakamoto, Edward (1940– ) Sakamoto was born and raised in ...

she had begun in New York. Published in 1998, the novel made a huge impression on the Cana- dian literary scene and was nominate ...

in society. Koichi was an outcast in Japan because of its political turmoil; he is considered alien in America because he is not ...

senses of isolation and belonging. In most of these stories, the Filipino characters seem to idealize their homeland in order to ...

Bibliography Ho, Wendy. In Her Mother’s House: The Politics of Mother-Daughter Writing. Walnut Creek, Calif.: Altamira Press, 19 ...

and the latest trends for ethnic literature; she also conducted several interviews with famous novel- ists such as Michael Chabo ...

allowed Seth, while he was studying at Nanjing University in China, to travel to restricted areas where few non-Chinese tourists ...

Seigo becomes ill from being in the fields and later dies. Yoneko’s mother pointedly tells her, “Never kill a person, Yoneko, be ...

Bibliography Cheung, King-Kok. Introduction. Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Pres ...