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Fae Myenne Ng’s “Orphan Bachelors” recalls her coming of age in midcentury San Francisco; Jane Wong’s “Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City” recalls hers in 1980s and ’90s New Jersey.
Between the Pages of Contemporary Asian American Literature There’s an evolution in contemporary Asian American literature from the usual immigrant story to something more nuanced and varied, something that’s more reflective of the varieties of “Asian Americaness”. Sex and Vanity, the half-Chinese, half-old money WASP Lucie Tang Churchill is confronted with (yet another) request to explain her identity. Lucie is in Capri alongside her equally WASPy (but not Chinese) cousin Charlotte when a tour guide mistakes Lucie for a friend rather than a relation. “Oh? Your cousin?” Paolo gl...
An illuminating comparison of Ann Petry's The Street and Gwendolyn Brooks's Maud Martha with Cynthia Kadohata's The Floating World and Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker by You-me Park and Gayle Wald ("Native Daughters in the Promised Land: Gender, Race, and the Question of Separate Spheres," AL 70: 607-33) establishes the extent to which minority literature "represents the boundaries between public and private spheres in the United States" and how "these boundaries reinforce and overlap class and gender lines." The critics' conclusion is that both the African American and Asian American gro...