Ning Yu (essay date fall 1996)
SOURCE: Yu, Ning. “Fanny Fern and Sui Sin Far: The Beginning of an Asian American Voice.” Women and Language 19, no. 2 (fall 1996): 44-7.
[In the following essay, Yu discusses the significance of Far's lack of a literary predecessor and role model as a Chinese-American fiction writer, and contrasts Far's short stories with the fiction of Fanny Fern.]
The lack of a role model, as Alice Walker points out, “is an occupational hazard for the artist, simply because models in art, in behavior, in growth of spirit...
Source: Short Story Criticism, ©2003 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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