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Review Of Pioneer Girl, By Bich Minh Nguyen, Quan-Manh Ha
Review Of Pioneer Girl, By Bich Minh Nguyen, Quan-Manh Ha
Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies
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From Raw To Cooked: Amy Tan’S “Fish Cheeks” Through A Lévi-Straussian Lens, Susan K. Kevra
From Raw To Cooked: Amy Tan’S “Fish Cheeks” Through A Lévi-Straussian Lens, Susan K. Kevra
Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies
In "Fish Cheeks" a scant 500 words short story, Amy Tan serves up a coming of age story about an Asian American teenage girl. Tan’s setting of Christmas for a traditional Chinese dinner, shared with the American boy on whom the protagonist, Amy, has a crush, emphasizes the girl’s dual identity as an Asian American, a reality she is confronting head on. Forced to see her family traditions through the eyes of a white, Christian boy, she finds those traditions distasteful. Rather than delighting in the dishes her mother has lovingly prepared, she is revolted by them, fixated instead on …
The Illegible Pan: Racial Formation, Hybridity, And Chinatown In Sui Sin Far’S “‘Its Wavering Image’”, Caroline Porter
The Illegible Pan: Racial Formation, Hybridity, And Chinatown In Sui Sin Far’S “‘Its Wavering Image’”, Caroline Porter
Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies
Drawing upon Judith Butler’s theory of performativity, this article offers an interpretation of “‘Its Wavering Image’” that explains the biracial main character, Pan’s, process of racialization. The argument is two fold: first, the paper contends that in this story, Sui Sin Far theorizes that race is performative rather than biological. Race does not come from characters’ bodies, but is rather an incorporated performance of codes. Pan’s race, then, depends not on her parentage or her biology, but on the “codes” she internalizes and embodies, codes that are fleshed out throughout the article through historical contextualization of San Francisco and Chinatown. …
A “Monstress” Undertaking: An Interview With Lysley Tenorio, Noelle Brada-Williams
A “Monstress” Undertaking: An Interview With Lysley Tenorio, Noelle Brada-Williams
Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies
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Introduction To Volume Six: An Identity Rebus, Noelle Brada-Williams
Introduction To Volume Six: An Identity Rebus, Noelle Brada-Williams
Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies
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Volume 6 Cover, Mark P. Brada
Volume 6 Cover, Mark P. Brada
Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies
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