David Henry Hwang (Magill’s Choice: American Ethnic Writers)
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David Henry Hwang is a second-generation Chinese American. From his earliest plays, Hwang has been concerned with the Chinese American experience. Hwang has identified three developmental phases in his early work. His “assimilationist” phase was motivated by the overwhelming desire to be accepted by white American culture. Hwang’s first play, F. O. B., exemplifies this first period. Dave, a Chinese American, reacts negatively to a “fresh-off-the-boat” Chinese, Steve, because Steve exhibits all the stereotypic mannerisms that Dave has tried to...
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