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Beyond Literary Chinatown

By Jeffrey F. L. Partridge
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By Jeffrey F. L. Partridge
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American Book Award Winner (Before Columbus Foundation)

The phenomenon of “literary Chinatown”—the ghettoization of Chinese American literature—was produced by the same dynamics of race and representation that ghettoized the Chinese American community into literal Chinatowns. In a 1982 response to reviews of Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston pinpointed the crux of the matter: “How dare they make their ignorance our inscrutability!”

Jeffrey F. L. Partridge examines the dynamic relationship b...

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