Annette White-Parks (essay date spring 1995)
SOURCE: White-Parks, Annette. “A Reversal of American Concepts of ‘Other-ness’ in the Fiction of Sui Sin Far.” MELUS 20, no. 1 (spring 1995): 17-34.
[In the following essay, White-Parks argues that Far's fiction succeeds in representing Euro-Americans as the “Other” from the perspective of her Chinese-American characters, in contrast to dominant representations of Asian-Americans as the “Other.”]
I came to the concepts explored in this essay through questions formulated while reading...
Source: Short Story Criticism, ©2003 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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