Volcano (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Garrett Kaoru Hongo
- First Published: 1995
- Type of Work: Memoir
- Time of Work: The 1950’s to the 1980’s
- Setting: Volcano, Hawai‘i, and Gardena, California
- Principal Characters: Garrett Hongo, Torau Hongo, Yukiko Kiriu, Kubota, Albert Hongo, Charlotte Goya
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir
- Subjects: Family or family life, Traveling or travelers, Nature, Poetry or poets, Asian Americans, Japanese Americans
- Locales: Los Angeles, CA, Hawaii
In the study of Asian American literature, autobiography is subject to controversy. In “Come All Ye Asian American Writers of the Real and the Fake” (The Big AIIIEEEEE! An Anthology of Chinese and Japanese American Literature, 1991), Chinese American scholar and critic Frank Chin posits that Chinese American writers such as Jade Snow Wong (The Fifth Chinese Daughter, 1945), Maxine Hong Kingston (The Woman Warrior, 1975; China Men, 1980; Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book, 1989), and Amy Tan (The Joy Luck Club, 1989; The Kitchen God’s...
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