Encyclopedia of Asian-American Literature

Yamamoto was awarded the American Book Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Before Colum- bus Foundation. The now-out-of-prin ...

Major themes of her novels include the absence of the mother and subsequent loneliness of child- hood and adolescence; sexual vi ...

architect/artist Ronaldo Lopes de Oliveira, with whom she has two children. While in Brazil, she published short stories such as ...

him the story of his great-grandfather, who, com- ing from Africa as a slave, had been forced to give up his African name and, w ...

Berkeley Repertory Theatre and was restaged in 1989 by Playwrights Horizons in New York. Despite their common grounds as struggl ...

work through a series of discreet paragraphs or stanzas (for example “Postcards from Nebraska”). Johns was also an influence in ...

to her neurosis, seems both familiar and new. She is a caricature of the angst-ridden creator but a post- modern caricature, sel ...

mother, Choi’s protagonist retains her childlike idealism and a belief in the forces of hope, courage, and family, as well as he ...

The Lost Garden is dedicated) encouraged him to write his first science fiction story, which he man- aged to sell for one penny ...

Yew, Chay (1967– ) Born and raised in Singapore, playwright and di- rector Chay Yew came to America at the age of 16 to study at ...

and transnational, and narrating Asian-American stories to both Asian-American and non–Asian- American audiences. Bibliography D ...

bers, especially to the woman who makes “swell” doughnuts. Yokohama, California is often credited as being the first collection ...

of female legacies is a forceful theme in her writing as she explores women’s relationships with their families and communities. ...

but he never relinquished his dream of reform. In 1863 Yung convinced Governor-General Zeng Guofan to underwrite the education o ...

342  342 Compiled by Jina Lee Abbasi, Talat. Bitter Gourd and Other Stories. Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2001. Abdullah, ...

Bibliography of Major Works by Asian-American Writers 343 ———. Bone-Sculpture. Calcutta: Writers Workshop, 1972. ———. Call Me Is ...

344 Encyclopedia of Asian-American Literature Cao, Lan. Monkey Bridge. New York: Penguin Books, 1997. Carbo, Nick. Andalusian Da ...

Bibliography of Major Works by Asian-American Writers 345 ———. Troublemaker and Other Saints. New York: Penguin, 2001. Choi, Soo ...

346 Encyclopedia of Asian-American Literature and Annette White-Parks. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995. Fenkl, Heinz ...

Bibliography of Major Works by Asian-American Writers 347 ———. The Morning Deluge: Mao Tse Tung and the Chinese Revolution, 1893 ...