The Chickencoop Chinaman (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Frank Chin
- First Published: 1981
- Type of Work: Play
- Genres: Social realism, Drama, Comedy
- Subjects: 1960’s, Self-discovery, United States or Americans, Tradition, Race, Authors or writers, Antiheroes, Boxing, Filmmaking or filmmakers, Chinese Americans
- Locales: Pittsburgh, PA
The Chickencoop Chinaman established Chin's success and became the first play by an Asian American to be produced on Broadway. Yet the work is not one that would seem to recommend itself to the average theatergoer, given the play's dark theme, its depiction of the irreparable loss of a father, and its irresolute climax.
Ironically, of all Chin's works, this piece, which established his credentials as a Chinese American writer, is the one least concerned with the Chinese American experience. Rather, the play portrays the extravagant heterogeneity of the United States. Each...
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