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Asian American 150 Final Detailed Questions And Expert Answers
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Asian American 150 Final Detailed QuestionsAnd Expert Answers
The Woman Warrior - ANS - Written by Maxine Hong Kingston
- Genre: blurring of fact, fiction, myth
- identified as biography, fiction, non-fiction
- Organized into five sections -- stories told by narrator and/or her mother
- (1) "No Name Woman," ~ story told by the narrator's mother about aunt who
had child out of wedlock
- (2)"White Tigers," ~ story told by the narrator's mother about a warrior woman
Fa Mu Lan (Similar to Disney's story of Mulan ~ a woman pretends to be a man in
order to fill in for her father's military duty).... this positive image of a woman
challenges the bad image painted of the aunt
- (3) "Shaman" ~ ghost stories told by the narrator's mother. Ghosts as threats to
women's independence... mother seen as practical, "You [ghost] have no power
over a strong woman"
- (4) "At the Western Palace" ~ story told by the narrator about her mother
- (5) "A Song for a Barbarian Reed Pipe" ~ narrator's story about herself - she
compares self to "silent girl," her racial double
- the book is composed of parallels, multiple layers, rather than conventional
plot/narrative
The Best We Could Do - ANS - Written by Thi Bui
- Background of US war in Vietnam
, - Structured around family's oral histories
- Our narrator attempts to learn her vietnamese history through what is told to
her by others
- Visual style: panels, color, shading, etc.
- whole thing is in comic book style
- Responding to dominant images of Vietnam War (think CBS video on Vietnam
War our narrator watches)
- These mainstream cultural representations makes the Vietnamese people
voiceless and nameless
- in professor Yu's ords, Thi Bui wrote this book with the desire of "confronting
mainstream representations of Vietnamese and Vietnamese American people."
- providing visuals along with the text shifts the focus of the war from ~ "a strategic
game between two battling ideologies"~ to a personal account of the people being
effected
"Confessions of a Chinatown Cowboy" - ANS - Written by Frank Chin
- Masculinity: Ben Fee and "Chinatown cowboy"
- Problem of language: "college white" vs. "practical" language of Chinatown
- Chinese Americans as chameleons, imitators
- Rise of model minority myth
- Idea of "Chinese culture" as way of keeping Chinese alien
- "Movies in Chinatown": violent martial arts films vs. emasculating stereotypes of
Hollywood
- Chinatown as home; Mr. Mah's language: "Chinatown buck-buck bagaw"
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