... United States represent cultural, ethnic, racial, and sexual difference—rise to the surface. The novel is - nar rated in the waiting room of a hospital by Louie Mendoza, a jazz musi- cian from the El Paso barrio now living with his white girlfriend, la Mollie, in San Francisco. His...

... inherited a gun that instantly obliter- ates anyone he shoots.36 Andy and his friend Louie are familiar enough with superheroes that they know (apparently without discussing it) that Andy needs to shop for a costume once he discovers his super- powers.37 They also know that Andy’s private life...

... of appropriating Tom Outland’s legacy are most often levied at Louie Marsellus, the husband of Rosamond St. Peter, Outland’s fian- cée at the time of his death. At business and professional gatherings, Tom...

... is absent. She narrates through the “we” of the neighborhood kids. In describing Meme Ortiz’s name, dog, and house, Esperanza constructs a character portrait. She is hardly a protagonist here, rather an observer. “Louie, His Cousin & His Other Cousin” recounts what Esperanza calls an “important” event...

... and the Peach (1998), David Wong Louie’s The Barbarians Are Coming (2000), and Chiang Yee’s American travelogues. Writing Together/Writing Apart: Collaboration in Western American Literature.By Linda K. Karell. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press. 2002. xli, 219 pp. $49.95. Karell’s consideration...

... Americans—that are typically read in predict- able and orientalist ways. Rather than countering these stereotypes—which, as Partridge points out, has already been extensively done—he instead exam- ines how authors such as Gish Jen, Li Young Lee, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, David Wong Louie, and Shawn Wong...

... Americans—that are typically read in predict- able and orientalist ways. Rather than countering these stereotypes—which, as Partridge points out, has already been extensively done—he instead exam- ines how authors such as Gish Jen, Li Young Lee, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, David Wong Louie, and Shawn Wong...

... Americans—that are typically read in predict- able and orientalist ways. Rather than countering these stereotypes—which, as Partridge points out, has already been extensively done—he instead exam- ines how authors such as Gish Jen, Li Young Lee, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, David Wong Louie, and Shawn Wong...

... Americans—that are typically read in predict- able and orientalist ways. Rather than countering these stereotypes—which, as Partridge points out, has already been extensively done—he instead exam- ines how authors such as Gish Jen, Li Young Lee, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, David Wong Louie, and Shawn Wong...

... Americans—that are typically read in predict- able and orientalist ways. Rather than countering these stereotypes—which, as Partridge points out, has already been extensively done—he instead exam- ines how authors such as Gish Jen, Li Young Lee, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, David Wong Louie, and Shawn Wong...

... Americans—that are typically read in predict- able and orientalist ways. Rather than countering these stereotypes—which, as Partridge points out, has already been extensively done—he instead exam- ines how authors such as Gish Jen, Li Young Lee, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, David Wong Louie, and Shawn Wong...

... Americans—that are typically read in predict- able and orientalist ways. Rather than countering these stereotypes—which, as Partridge points out, has already been extensively done—he instead exam- ines how authors such as Gish Jen, Li Young Lee, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, David Wong Louie, and Shawn Wong...

... Americans—that are typically read in predict- able and orientalist ways. Rather than countering these stereotypes—which, as Partridge points out, has already been extensively done—he instead exam- ines how authors such as Gish Jen, Li Young Lee, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, David Wong Louie, and Shawn Wong...

... Americans—that are typically read in predict- able and orientalist ways. Rather than countering these stereotypes—which, as Partridge points out, has already been extensively done—he instead exam- ines how authors such as Gish Jen, Li Young Lee, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, David Wong Louie, and Shawn Wong...

... Americans—that are typically read in predict- able and orientalist ways. Rather than countering these stereotypes—which, as Partridge points out, has already been extensively done—he instead exam- ines how authors such as Gish Jen, Li Young Lee, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, David Wong Louie, and Shawn Wong...

... Americans—that are typically read in predict- able and orientalist ways. Rather than countering these stereotypes—which, as Partridge points out, has already been extensively done—he instead exam- ines how authors such as Gish Jen, Li Young Lee, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, David Wong Louie, and Shawn Wong...

... Americans—that are typically read in predict- able and orientalist ways. Rather than countering these stereotypes—which, as Partridge points out, has already been extensively done—he instead exam- ines how authors such as Gish Jen, Li Young Lee, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, David Wong Louie, and Shawn Wong...

... Americans—that are typically read in predict- able and orientalist ways. Rather than countering these stereotypes—which, as Partridge points out, has already been extensively done—he instead exam- ines how authors such as Gish Jen, Li Young Lee, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, David Wong Louie, and Shawn Wong...

... out, has already been extensively done—he instead exam- ines how authors such as Gish Jen, Li Young Lee, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, David Wong Louie, and Shawn Wong actively resist and confound these overly sim- plistic ways of reading. Aware of their readers’ preconceptions, these writers, Partridge...

... Americans—that are typically read in predict- able and orientalist ways. Rather than countering these stereotypes—which, as Partridge points out, has already been extensively done—he instead exam- ines how authors such as Gish Jen, Li Young Lee, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, David Wong Louie, and Shawn Wong...