Encyclopedia of Asian-American Literature

weren’t ever even exchanges” (Foreign Student 67). Though “even exchange” proves problematic for Chang and Katherine, their rela ...

Choi, Susan. The Foreign Student. New York: Harper- Collins, 1998. Egan, Jennifer. “La Japonaise.” Review of American Woman by S ...

USA Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a 1992 New York Theatre and Dance “Bessie” Award for Sustained Achievement. Chong direct ...

dry rooms most of their lives. They dream about returning to China and joining their families, but they have become complacently ...

which was collected in The Pushcart Prize XIII, even the knowable past is called into question, and distinct familial relationsh ...

cern with visibility and presence for each other. “A Final Thing” details a memory of the speaker’s wife telling their son a sto ...

Significantly, issues of language and the limits of representation are addressed by Keller in her depiction of Soon Hyo, not jus ...

May-ying sent from Canada, as well as her own son who suffers from a physical deformity, Huangbo witnesses the destruction of he ...

text is Bertolt Brecht’s Good Woman of Szechwan, a play that the Canadian writer and theater scholar Keith Garebian says dramati ...

57  57 Darjeeling Bharti Kirchner (2002) This third novel by BHARTI KIRCHNER is much more ambitious than her first two. The st ...

58 narrator’s life with the deep history of Filipino community in the past. The first story, “Dark Blue Suit,” sets up both the ...

59 was also published in England under the title Ev- erything Happens for a Reason. Daswani’s popular novels have been described ...

60 orful descriptions of annual events and festivals, including the New Year and Ura-bon (“A Welcome of Souls Returned” during t ...

61 and the protagonist ends up having to rely on the miniplanner of the title to manage his busy per- sonal schedule. These enco ...

62 his murder of Guan but “crime and corruption under Western bourgeois influence,” a warning case that indicates the party’s in ...

63 she offers “How to Talk Dirty” and “Lesbian Pool Party,” which spoof contemporary sexual fantasies and their sometimes comica ...

64 California. The prose poems narrate the stories of the immigrant women’s lives that were drawn from cultural artifacts such a ...

65 serves as a counterpoint to Rio’s narration, chal- lenging and questioning some of her statements. The novel is concerned wit ...

66 and inspire self-esteem. Donald’s father and other fatherly figures in the community also offer a per- spective through which ...

67  E East Goes West: The Making of an Oriental Yankee Younghill Kang (1937) Six years after The GRASS ROOF (1931), YOUNGHILL ...