Encyclopedia of Asian-American Literature

she outright defies them. By exploring the com- plexities inherent in Korean-American adoles- cence, and by resisting convention ...

at Long Island University. In 1999 she received her Ph.D. in comparative literature from New York University. After teaching in ...

in the Chinese army, who leaves his mother and fiancée to go to Korea as a member of the Chinese People’s Volunteers. Due to poo ...

reappearing in different stories at different stages of their lives. The stories also interpret and make relevant older cultural ...

work with the police to find the real killers, and this book, too, ends with a reunion: Father Ka- washima, who has been a POW, ...

to define the fate of Yvonne’s whole family and, by extension, the Philippines. As the war arrives in Ubec, the Macaraig fam- il ...

perhaps superficial, ending, Bess dubs the grand- mother a “permanent resident” of her house and an “honorary Irish” for her com ...

cheap-imitation clothes and eat whatever food her family hunts and grows. Desperately wanting to fit in and be a “model minority ...

Brave Orchid is equally determined that they will not become “Americanized” and thus lose touch with their Chinese heritage. The ...

Wong, Elizabeth (1958– ) Born in an industrial section of Los Angeles called Southgate and raised in Chinatown, Wong expe- rienc ...

Chinese fashion. The work illustrates Chinatown’s characters, customs, and celebrations for West- ern readers, but more importan ...

and drawing, but it was Nanying who achieved recognition for her artistic promise. While at- tending Oakland’s Technical High Sc ...

in journals, books, and anthologies of varying quality, Wong will be remembered more as a vi- sual artist than as a poet. Toward ...

American Writers Speak Out on Feminism (2003) with Merle Woo and MITSUYE YAMADA. Her works were well received and Dreams in Harr ...

grammar is an invisible net in the air, holding your words in place. grammar, like wealth, belongs in the hands of the people wh ...

Woo, Merle (1941– ) As a leading member of the Radical Women and the Freedom Socialist Party, Merle Woo has dedicated her life t ...

Sheffer, Jolie. Review of 3 Asian American Writ- ers Speak Out on Feminism, by Mitsuye Yamada, Merle Woo, and Nellie Wong. Iris ...

Worra, Bryan Thao (1973– ) Poet Bryan Thao Worra was born Thao Somnouk Silosoth on January 1, 1973, in Vientiane, Laos, and move ...

326  Y Yamada, Mitsuye (May) (1923– ) While she has published less extensively than some of her contemporaries, Mitsuye Yamada ...

symptomatic of an enforced identity crisis among incarcerated Japanese Americans, recalling her mother asking, “If I sign this / ...