{"id":36477,"date":"2014-05-21T23:11:58","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T23:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36477"},"modified":"2014-05-21T23:11:58","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T23:11:58","slug":"great-asian-pacific-american-authors-amy-tan-jhumpa-lahiri-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36477","title":{"rendered":"Great Asian-Pacific American Authors: Amy Tan, Jhumpa Lahiri, and More"},"content":{"rendered":"

Great Asian-Pacific American Authors: Amy Tan, Jhumpa Lahiri, and More<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Bookish<\/a>
\n2014-05-15<\/p>\n

Elizabeth Rowe<\/strong><\/p>\n

May is\u00a0Asian-Pacific American Heritage month<\/a>\u00a0in the U.S., and, to honor the occasion, we\u2019ve highlighted some of our favorite (but by no means all of our favorite) authors of Asian-Pacific heritage who celebrate their cultures in their writing. From classics such as\u00a0Yoko Kawashima Watkins<\/a>\u2019\u00a0So Far From the Bamboo Grove<\/em><\/a>\u00a0to newer works, such as\u00a0Amy Tan<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0The Valley of Amazement<\/em><\/a>, these books written by Asian-Pacific American authors showcase varied and insightful perspectives on identity and American life…<\/p>\n

…Lisa See<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t be fooled by her strawberry-blond locks and freckles: Lisa See is part Chinese (she has a Chinese great-grandfather) and grew up with a large Chinese-American extended family. In 2001, she was named National Woman of the Year by the Organization of Chinese American Women. Of her cultural background,\u00a0See writes<\/a>: \u201cIn many ways I straddle two cultures. I try to bring what I know from both [Chinese and American] cultures into my work. The American side of me tries to open a window into China and things Chinese for non-Chinese, while the Chinese side of me makes sure that what I\u2019m writing is true to the Chinese culture without it seeming too \u2018exotic\u2019 or \u2018foreign.\u2019\u201d In her most recent book,\u00a0China Dolls<\/em><\/a>, See takes on the Japanese internment in the United States during World War II<\/a>, as well as the larger issue of racial passing<\/a>…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Great Asian-Pacific American Authors: Amy Tan, Jhumpa Lahiri, and More Bookish 2014-05-15 Elizabeth Rowe May is\u00a0Asian-Pacific American Heritage month\u00a0in the U.S., and, to honor the occasion, we\u2019ve highlighted some of our favorite (but by no means all of our favorite) authors of Asian-Pacific heritage who celebrate their cultures in their writing. From classics such as\u00a0Yoko […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,5,8],"tags":[17334,17335,17171],"class_list":["post-36477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-book-reviews","category-media-archive","tag-bookish","tag-elizabeth-rowe","tag-lisa-see"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}