Encyclopedia of Asian-American Literature

and trumpeting loudly, are the Amerikanos and the Japanese as they fight. And our Philippines Islands? We are the small chickens ...

To do so, Rainsford relies on different perspectives to evoke the spirits of his father and other male ancestors. As he seeks a ...

combines narratives from personal and collective history as the speaker moves through the land- scapes of home neighborhoods to ...

Hosokawa, Kumpei William “Bill” (1915– ) Bill Hosokawa was born and raised in Seattle. Although he began speaking English only i ...

stories with the larger history of the community. He has also continued to contribute regular col- umns to the Japanese-American ...

named a San Francisco Chronicle “Best Book of the Year,” an Entertainment Weekly “Top Ten Fiction Pick of the Year,” and an Amer ...

novel, The Legend of Fire Horse Woman, which tells the story of three generations of Japanese-Ameri- can women interned together ...

American cultures’ ideas of parental responsibility and honor. Ikebana (“living flowers” in Japanese) (2000) examines the elegan ...

assimilated and “hyphenated” point of view. What makes the relationship even more complex is that Olivia is a young child while ...

shortly before 1949, the past returns as a charmed stone that seeks revenge. The young girl in “San” studies mathematics hard in ...

can Literature, edited by King-Kok Cheung. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Bunkong Tuon Hwang, Caroline (?– ) A Kore ...

distaste for rigid, inflexible views about race: He deplores Western assumptions about its cultural superiority over the “Orient ...

became, almost overnight, a major literary figure at the age of 30. Both exhilarated and fatigued by the success of this Broadwa ...

is a personal account of Korean history during the Japanese colonial period, and it offers insight into Korean cultural traditio ...

12 2  I Iizuka, Naomi (1965– ) Naomi Iizuka did not come from a theater back- ground and considers herself a latecomer to the ...

Iizuka’s plays, such as Aloha Say All the Pretty Girls (1999), often feature travel as a central cata- lyst for self-transformat ...

After their release from Amache Camp in 1945, the Inadas returned to Fresno to rebuild their life. Back in his hometown, Inada r ...

writing haikus and traveling across the country to read at colleges and universities. Because he dedi- cated his life to being a ...

betraying the ideals of the newly democratic South Korean nation. Through such diverse characters as Chaplain Koh, Lieutenant Ch ...

Much of Interpreter of Maladies is concerned with examining the quotidian lives of Indian im- migrants living and working in the ...