The Sons of Chan (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Frank Chin
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Short story
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Racism, Twentieth century, Gender roles, Stereotypes, Asian Americans, Chinese Americans, Las Vegas
“The Sons of Chan” is the last story in Chin's short-story collection The Chinaman Pacific and Frisco R.R. Co. Chin's stories are the most stylistically idiosyncratic of his writings. Their prose is dense, allusive, and layered. In keeping with this individualism in style is the way that, in many of the stories, the protagonist concocts a subjective mythology. In the earlier The Chickencoop Chinaman, the hapless hero had tried to remold American pop iconography to his own ends; in the later Donald Duk, the hero locates a sustaining mythology by discovering...
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