Encyclopedia of Asian-American Literature

Kantaro’s nephew Genji Befu, whose cognitive lim- itations result in a naïve voice. His account captures the deteriorating condi ...

cepted by her countrymen but also loses her child, husband, job, and reputation. In The Bridegroom most characters are sub- ject ...

30 public reception. As his indictment of racist insti- tutions in a presumably egalitarian United States of America collided wi ...

31  C Cao, Lan (1961– ) Born and raised in Vietnam, Cao immigrated to the United States in 1975 at the age of 13, just after t ...

to obey her mother, who does not take life well in America. This desire fundamentally fluctuates with her mother’s silence, secr ...

returned to Korea after the country was emanci- pated in 1945 from Japanese colonial occupation. After spending her childhood in ...

constructed nature of language. As in the overly faithful dictation on the first page, where all the directions and punctuation ...

triumphs, and distinctive personalities of the Chai clan’s independent-minded intellectuals in 20th- century China and America. ...

the anguish she suffers from a divorce and her subsequent affair with a married man, chooses to gain a new sense of self. In A P ...

———. “Writer in the Hyphenated Condition: Diana Chang.” MELUS 7, no. 4 (1980): 69–83. Rexroth, Kenneth. Review of The Frontier o ...

published in literary journals such as Bamboo Ridge, Confluence, Crab Orchard Review, Crescent Review, and Prairie Schooner. Cha ...

victimization with issues related to her hyphen- ated identity as a Chinese American. In addition, through Wang’s troubled relat ...

the Tiananmen Massacre, however, Xiao-Di can- not find work despite his education. In his frustra- tion and anger with restricti ...

the girl’s uneasiness with her Chinese side, de- cides to tell her the story of the jade charm that had been given to the family ...

Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, “What is an Asian American?” became an urgent question. The editors of Aiiieeeee! proposed a ...

ily a poet. She has published individual poems in numerous journals and anthologies: Ploughshares, The Paris Review, Parnassus, ...

but lamenting that she “forgot to tutor me the last secret phrases” (line 13). Chin’s use of mothers in her poetry is nuanced. I ...

While the two texts are virtually identical in tone and style, the author stated in a New York Times interview that she consider ...

then a magazine editor at Scholastic Publishing, and an associate editor for the Web site Virtually React. Chiu is also a cofoun ...

sity as an English major. Longing to move to the United States to study, she applied and was ac- cepted at Manhattanville Colleg ...