Repeating stories

Too often, an interesting point-like the assertion that young Chinese Americans avoid crossing "Chinatowns... border streets: [Broadway,] Powell, Kearny and California" for fear that "white boys would hurl rocks" at them- is followed by a clumsy introduction of historical descrip...

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Published inCanadian Literature no. 216; pp. 171 - 341
Main Author Knowles, Sam
Format Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published Vancouver The University of British Columbia - Canadian Literature 22.03.2013
Pacific Affairs. The University of British Columbia
Subjects
Asian Americans
Chinese
Narratives
Short stories
Writing
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Summary:Too often, an interesting point-like the assertion that young Chinese Americans avoid crossing "Chinatowns... border streets: [Broadway,] Powell, Kearny and California" for fear that "white boys would hurl rocks" at them- is followed by a clumsy introduction of historical description into the narrative, such as the exchange between Jack and his uncle about nineteenth-century Chinese American immigration: "'Some of these old men have lived here for fifty years, ever since the gold rush. The author balances perfectly the opposing pressures of writing a short story collection, neither presenting a group of scattered, disconnected stories nor enforcing a too-weighty overarching narrative.
ISSN:0008-4360