Encyclopedia of Asian-American Literature

364 Encyclopedia of Asian-American Literature

Arion and the Dolphin (Seth) 265
arranged marriage
Alexander (Meena) on 8, 209
Ali (Samina) on 9–10
Chu (Louis Hing) on 51
Daswani (Kavita) on 59,
304–305
Divakaruni (Chitra Banerjee)
on 20, 21
Ganesan (Indira) on 141
Kang (Younghill) on 95
Lee (C.Y.) on 162
McCunn (Ruthanne Lum) on
199
Meer (Ameena) on 189
Pittalwala (Iqbal) on 245
Seth (Vikram) on 273
Sidhwa (Bapsi) on 268
Song (Cathy) on 243
Sugimoto (Etsu) on 59
Tan (Amy) on 154
Uchida (Yoshiko) on 243–244
Wang (Ping) on 309
Yamauchi (Wakako) on 17
Yun (Mia) on 340
Arranged Marriages (Divakaruni)
20–21, 64
Arresting God in Kathmandu
(Upadhyay) 300
Artist’s Daughter, The (Hahn) 99
Asa Ga Kimashita (Houston) 114
“Asako no Miya” (Yamashita) 330
Ashbery, John 332, 333
Ashok, by Any Other Name
(Yamate) 330–331
Asian American Sexualities: Di-
mensions of the Gay and Lesbian
Experience (Leong) 168
As If He Hears (Yew) 337
Assassin’s Touch, The (Rowland)
255
assimilation. See also cultural con-
flict
Chin (Marilyn Mei Ling) on 43
Gotanda (Philip Kan) on 332
Hwang (David Henry) on 80
Jen (Gish) on 135, 136, 198,
295, 313
Mura (David) on 204, 293
Nigam (Sanjay) on 216
Sakamoto (Edward) on 259

Tuan (Alice) on 292

Wong (Nellie) on 320

As the Crow Flies (Hwang) 119

At the Vanishing Point (Iizuka) 123

autobiographical elements. See also

memoirs

in America Is in the Heart (Bu-

losan) 14, 15, 29

in Babyjii (Dawesar) 61

in Castle and Outcast (Mukerji)

201

in Cha’s (Theresa Hak Kyung)

works 32

in China Boy (Lee) 44, 163, 164

in China Men (Kingston) 45,

78

in Dark Blue Suit and Other

Stories (Bacho) 57

in A Daughter of the Samurai

(Sugimoto) 59

in East Goes West: The Making

of an Oriental Yankee (Kang)

67

in Echoes of the White Giraffe

(Choi) 69–70

in “Family Restaurant” (Chin)

43

in The Fifth Book of Peace

(Kingston) 78

in Gangster We Are All Looking

For, The (lê) 90

in Gathering of Pearls (Choi)

90

in The Grass Roof 67, 145

in Habibi (Nye) 97

in Honor and Duty (Lee) 163,

164

in “How to Cook Rice” (Tyau)

295

in In the Year of the Boar and

Jackie Robinson (Lord) 175

in The Joy Luck Club (Tan) 281

in The Kitchen God’s Wife (Tan)

281

in “Leaves From the Mental

Portfolio of an Eurasian”

(Far) 74

in Legends from Camp (Inada)

124

in “Life Among the Oil Fields: A

Memoir” (Yamamoto) 266

in Lost Names: Scenes from a

Korean Boyhood (Kim) 176

in Love Made of Heart (Ryan)

256

in The Love Wife (Jen) 177

in Madras on Rainy Days (Ali)

9–10

in Me (Eaton) 69

in Memories of My Ghost

Brother (Fenkl) 77

in Monkey Bridge (Cao) 31

in “My Observations on Ameri-

can-Iranian Cultural Differ-

ences” (Rachlin) 249

in The Opposite of Fate (Tan)

231–232

in The Queen’s Garden (Aoki)

248

in The Serpent and the Rope

(Rao) 251

in To Swim across the World

(Park and Park) 238

in Tripmaster Monkey (Kings-

ton) 153

in The Woman Warrior (Kings-

ton) 78, 152, 315

in A Year in Van Nuys (Loh)

173

in Year of Impossible Goodbyes

(Choi) 47, 69, 90, 334

Autumn Bridge (Matsuoka) 185

Avocado Kid, The (Gotanda) 94

Awake in the River (Mirikitani)

192–193

B

Babaylan (Carbò and Tabios) 32

Babyjii (Dawesar) 60, 61

Bacchae, The (Euripides) 292

Bacho, Peter 22

Dark Blue Suit and Other Sto-

ries 22, 57–58

Bad Names for Women (Tham)

283

“Bad Women” (Mirikitani) 193

Ballad of Yachiyo (Gotanda) 94

Banana Split (film) 85

Barbarians Are Coming, The

(Louie) 22–23, 176, 177

Barroga, Jeannie 23–24, 217