The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales

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Yep, Laurence

Yep, Laurence (1948– ),
versatile Asian American author for young adults and children. Yep's experience as a third‐generation Chinese American growing up in a Black neighbourhood of San Francisco and commuting to a Chinatown bilingual school shaped the cultural open‐mindedness and the attentiveness to outsiders which characterize his works. Yep's recurring theme is acculturation, and dragons are the magic or creative embodiment of the fear and wonder that such a challenge entails.

While Sweetwater (1973) takes up the encounter with the alien in a science‐fiction context, later works (Dragon of the Lost Sea, 1982, Dragon Steel, 1985, and Dragon Cauldron, 1991) recount Princess Shimmer's quest for a lost home by mixing fantasy and Chinese mythology. The award‐winning Dragonwings (1976) approaches the questions of Chinese American identity more specifically and also represents the first of...

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