Encyclopedia of Asian-American Literature

88  G Ganesan, Indira (1960– ) Born in Srirangam, India, Ganesan moved to St. Louis, Missouri, at age five. Best known for her ...

89 can identities, a topic already present in Hagedo- rn’s first novel, DOGEATERS. Spanning the period from the 1970s to the ear ...

90 Gangster We Are All Looking For, The lê thi diem thúy (2003) The partly autobiographical novel, The Gangster We Are All Looki ...

91 Choi’s Gathering does not have the suspense and action of her previous two novels, yet Gath- ering is an apt finale to Sookan ...

92 the business he founds, and the home he carefully restores, somehow go awry, and his final gesture is ambivalent. By leaving ...

93 distinction of fiction to close readings of Shake- speare and T. S. Eliot. Though both his nonfiction and poetry have garnere ...

94 day, the spirit of Ahn reminds her Chinese-Ameri- can grandson about her and her father’s achieve- ments in removing the nega ...

95 highlight premodern Korean culture. The second half, set in Seoul and Japan, contrasts sharply with the first half in that it ...

96 Told by four first-person narrators, the novel is divided into four sections. It begins with the life of an actor father, Lon ...

97 Habibi Naomi Shihab Nye (1997) Habibi is the story of Liyana Abboud, whose Pal- estinian father announces to the family one e ...

98 blends such genres as poetry, fiction, songs, and scripts, blurring the traditional boundaries among them. Her art is as comp ...

screenplay for the film Fresh Kill (1994) directed by Shu Lea Cheang. Bibliography Bloom, Harold, ed. Asian-American Women Write ...

Bibliography Xiaojing, Zhou. “Intercultural Strategies in Asian American Poetry.” In Re-placing America: Con- versations and Con ...

Cultural Exchange, has been performed at theaters in Maine, New Hampshire, New York, Massachu- setts, and Connecticut. Bibliogra ...

larly harsh treatment among Western commenta- tors for her sympathetic renderings of the rule of Chairman Mao. In the face of su ...

the help of her son James, details Hayslip’s life in the United States from 1972 to 1986, chronicling her struggles in a foreign ...

The Feast of Icarus: Lyrical Essays (1984); The Wan- ton Summer Air (1982); and Stills (1989). Hazo has written numerous essays ...

grief and self-pity in America, becomes more and more comfortable in his home country, where he is clearly needed. As a universi ...

lives in Eugene, where she works as a medical in- terpreter, writer, researcher, and activist. She gives public lectures across ...

Value Dennis, a soil scientist, with whom she has had three children. In the mid-1970s, Ho worked as a journalist in Singapore a ...