Hapa Girl - A Memoir

Informationen zum Autor May-lee Chai is the author of five books, My Lucky Face, The Girl from Purple Mountain (co-authored with Winberg Chai) and Glamorous Asians: Short Stories & Essays, and recipient of an NEA Grant in Literature. Klappentext May-lee Chai is the author of five books! My Lucky Face! The Girl from Purple Mountain (co-authored with Winberg Chai) and Glamorous Asians: Short Stories & Essays! and recipient of an NEA Grant in Literature. Zusammenfassung In the mid-1960s! Winberg Chai! a young academic and the son of Chinese immigrants! married an Irish-American artist. This book offers a depiction of the racism suffered by them in rural South Dakota. Inhaltsverzeichnis PrologueChapter 1: The Wearing of the GreenChapter 2: The Sexy Artist Meets the Boy From New York CityChapter 3: How to Charm a Mother-in-LawChapter 4: California Dreamin'Chapter 5: The BananaChapter 6: The Banana's RevengeChapter 7: Autumn in the CountryChapter 8: Hunting SeasonChapter 9: The Little ThingsChapter 10: The ClosetChapter 11: My Last ConfessionChapter 12: BugsChapter 13: The Fall of the PrinceChapter 14: The Jade TreeChapter 15: The Nights of Many PrayersChapter 16: What You Don't Know Can Hurt YouChapter 17: Stephen King HighChapter 18: BarbariansChapter 19: Glamour PussChapter 20: The CannibalsChapter 21: The Fine Art of Denial

Produktdetails

• Autoren: May-Lee Chai
• Verlag: Temple University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 28.09.2008
• EAN: 9781592136162
• ISBN: 978-1-59213-616-2
• Seiten: 211
• Abmessung: 127 mm x 203 mm x 13 mm
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur > Briefe, Tagebücher; Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Geowissenschaften > Geografie; Sachbuch > Politik, Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft > Biographien, Autobiographien