Encyclopedia of Asian-American Literature

in 1973 from the University of Nottingham with a dissertation on the construction of self-image in early English romantic, symbo ...

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demons of class, religion, and culture by emigrat- ing to America. Enchanted by the glamour and rituals of the elaborate marriag ...

how to live. In the brief “Presumption” sections, Hatterr tries to clarify the instructions for himself as well as the reader. T ...

Quarterly in 1959 and well received, finding a publisher for Murayama’s novel proved to be dif- ficult. In the mid-20th century, ...

of Meats, Ozeki returns repeatedly to a single cen- tral metaphor. In this case images of seeds, rather than meat, are pervasive ...

which his suburban town is populated by Koreans, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, and blacks. His family has evolved as well, with his ...

the text was all but erased from cultural memory. It remained out of print until the 1970s. The book’s subtitle, “A Personal His ...

Stephen S. Fugita, and Amy Ling, 199–209. Pull- man: Washington State University Press, 1991. Libretti, Tim. “America Is in the ...

1969 to the present. The memoir begins with the descriptions of the author’s early life in Malaysia during and after British col ...

his first fiction about his native Sri Lanka. Anil, a forensic anthropologist born in Sri Lanka and educated in the West, is sen ...

Company. She became interested in jazz, eventu- ally cofounding the jazz performance ensemble SoundSeen with composer/musician M ...

their homeland and alienated in the United States, these characters “come together in a modern re- grouping, a new kind of triba ...

feelings of loss and grief and reveal the aforemen- tioned paradigmatic shift. As the young widow in the story opts to stay in t ...

22  B Bacho, Peter (1950– ) In his novels, short stories, and essays, Peter Bacho explores the often-overlooked presence and h ...

second-generation Chinese American who strug- gles to find a workable compromise between the old-world expectations of his paren ...

ater Company in San Francisco. Due to her active participation in theatrical work, Barroga received several awards: the Maverick ...

from sexual abuse, and eventually leave her home to begin an education and embark on adulthood. Critics praised Yamanaka for her ...

she is described as becoming a strong-willed woman who turns down a feudal marriage pro- posal from a cruel man, in order to mar ...

and young adulthood in the Philippines. Her es- says have been collected and published as Philip- pine Women in America. Brainar ...