374 Encyclopedia of Asian-American Literature
Park (Frances) and Park (Gin-
ger) on 238–239, 286
Park (Linda Sue) on 239
Rno (Sung) on 252–253
Trenka (Jane Jeong) on 286–
287
Yoo (David) on 339
Yun (Mia) on 340
Kristeva, Julia 82
Kuanghu, Chou. See Han Suyin
Kuan Yin: Our Lady of Compassion
(Aoki) 19
Kukan (documentary) 170
Kuo, Alex 156
L
Lady Is Dying (Kaneko and Sanbo)
144
Lahiri, Jhumpa viii, 157–158
Interpreter of Maladies: Stories
126–127, 158, 208
The Namesake 158, 208
Lam, Andrew Quang 158–159
Lane with No Name: Memoirs and
Poems of a Malaysian-Chinese
Girlhood (Tham) 283
language
Cha (Theresa Hak Kyung) on
33
Ghose (Zulfikar) on 92
Kim (Myung Mi) on 148
Kogawa (Joy) on 223
Lee (Chang-rae) on 212
Lord (Bette Bao) on 175
Suleri Goodyear (Sara) on
274
Tan (Amy) on 232
Tuan (Alice) on 291–292
Wang (Ping) on 309
Yamanaka (Lois-Ann) on 328,
329
Language of Angels (Iizuka) 123
Language of Baklava, The (Abu-
Jaber) 5
Language of Blood, The: A Memoir
(Trenka) 286
Language of the Geckos and Other
Stories (Pak) 237
Language of Their Own, A (Yew)
337
Language of Threads, The (Tsuki-
yama) 291
Laos 325
Lapine, James 93
Lashgare, Deirdre 193
Last Dance (Aoki) 19
Last Dragon, The (Nunes) 220,
221
Last of the Suns (Tuan) 291, 292
“Las Vegas Charley” (Yamamoto)
266
Lau, Alan Chong 109, 124
Lau, Evelyn 159–160
Laughter of My Father, The (Bulo-
san) 29
Lay, Sody 300
lê thi diem thúy 160
The Gangster We Are All Look-
ing For 90, 160
Lease, Benjamin 36
Leave It to Me (Mukherjee) 203
“Leaves From the Mental Portfolio
of an Eurasian” (Far) 74
Leaving Yuba City (Divakaruni)
63–64
Ledge between the Streams, The
(Mehta) 190
Lee, Chang-rae vii, 160–161
Aloft 13–14, 160, 161
A Gesture Life 91–92, 160, 161
Native Speaker 160, 161,
211–212
Lee, C.Y. 161–162
Lee, Don 162–163
Lee, Gus vii, 163–164
China Boy 44, 163, 164
Lee, Helie 165
Lee, Li-Young vii, 165–166
The City in Which I Love You
51–53, 166
Lee, Marie G. 166–167
Finding My Voice 79, 167, 263
Necessary Roughness 167,
212–213, 339
Saying Goodbye 167, 263
Somebody’s Daughter 167,
268–269
Lee, Mary Paik 167–168
Lee, Rachel 285, 314
Legacies: A Chinese Mosaic (Lord)
175Legacies: Tales From America (doc-
umentary) 115
“Legacy” (Pittalwala) 245–246
“Legend, The” (Hongo) 110
Legend of Fire Horse Woman, The
(Houston) 113
“Legend of Miss Sasagawara, The”
(Yamamoto) 265
Legends from Camp (Inada) 124
Leong, Russell 168–170
Letters to a Student Revolutionary
(Wong) 317
“Letter to Ma” (Woo) 323
Levine, Philip 124
Li, Ling Ai 170
“Life among the Oil Fields: A
Memoir” (Yamamoto) 266
Life in the Fast Lane (Nishikawa)
217
Life Is for a Long Time: A Chinese
Hawaiian Memoir (Li) 170
Life of the Land, The (Sakamoto)
259
Life of Toyo Suyemoto Kawakami
(film) 275
Lilo and Me (film) 85
Lim, Shirley Geok-lin 36, 170–171
Among the White Moon Faces:
An Asian-American Memoir of
Homelands 16–17, 171
Ling, Amy 35, 36, 75
Lipstick and Other Stories (Kuo)
156
Literary Voices of Winnifred Eaton,
The (Cole) 194
Little Too Much Is Enough, A
(Tyau) 294–295
Liu, Aimee E. 171–172
Loh, Sandra Tsing 172–173
Depth Takes a Holiday: Es-
says from Lesser Los Angeles
62–63, 172
A Year in Van Nuys 172, 173,
333–334
Loh, Vyvyanne 173–174
Long, John Luther 132, 195
“Loose Ends” (Mukherjee) 191
Lord, Bette Bao 175
Lorde, Audre 100
Los Angeles—Struggle toward
Multiethnic Community: Asian