Questions of Identity: Ethnicity, Apprenticeship, and the New American Writer
INTRODUCTION
MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGE Value
DANIEL CHACON Expression of Our People
DEBRA KANG DEAN Telling Differences
EHUD HVAZELET “To Life in Tiflis in the Springtime”
JEANNE WAKATSUKI HOUSTON Colors
LILLIAN HO WAN Waiting for the Snake
GEETA KOTHARI Where Are You From?
CHANGE-RAE LEE The Faintest Echo of Our Language
RUSSELL LEONG The Painted Branch: A Parable
ARNOST LUSTIG The House of Echo Returns: The Echo
DAVID MURA No-No Boys: Re-X-Amining Japanese Americans
RICARDO PAU-LLOSA The Defector
INEZ PETERSEN Missing You
JOHN YAU Between the Forest and Its Trees
Photographs
DARILYN ROWAN At What Time Does the Day Begin
Reviews
PETER FILKINS The Dark and Light of the Daylight Moon: The Poetry of Les Murray
BILL OLIVER From Tangents to Trespasses (On Ann Beattie, Pam Houston, Sandra Cisneros, and Julia Alvarez)
PAMELA ERENS Flirting With the Past (on Janet Malcolm)
Contributors’ Notes
COVER ART: Jeff Kaufman