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You are here: Home / Archives for Calton Breen

Nothing learned Kuo novel promotes stereotypes

November 15, 2008 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Alex Kuo’s latest book, “White Jade and Other Stories” rides a rocky divide. Writing from a ChineseAmerican perspective, the short pieces that make up this collection support his personal political agenda. As such his voice does need to be heard, but literature does not sit easy with work that is one-sided, driven by emotion instead of reason and flagrantly guilty of the twin sins of omission and distortion.

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, On the Shelf Tagged With: 2008, Alex Kuo, Calton Breen, Chinese American, Northwest Asian Weekly, White Jade, attention, vol 27 no 47 | November 15 - 21

Growing Pains — Teacher matures along with her students

October 4, 2008 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Author Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum knows how complicated growing up can be. Her first novel, National Book Award finalist “Madeleine is Sleeping,” explored the turbulent, often surreal world of adolescence. There, Bynum revealed the tragedy that can hide behind the physical or hormonal changes that put an end to childhood. Far too many of us want to stay children, want to stay unformed and unfocused as adults, escaping into a private void we mistakenly call “freedom.”

Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Reviews, On the Shelf Tagged With: 2008, Beatrice Hempel, Calton Breen, Chinese, Harcourt Inc, Hempel Chronicles, National Book Award, New York City, Northwest Asian Weekly, vol 27 no 41 | October 4 - October 10

Novel deals with suicide, abuse, and the legacy of being Japanese American

September 20, 2008 By Northwest Asian Weekly

Working within the emotionally associative forms of poetry and memoir, award-winning poet David Mura has already created a body of work that tackles head-on complex issues such as sexual desire and addiction, race relations and the unspoken consequences of U.S. WWII internment camps on later generations of Japanese Americans.

Filed Under: Reviews, On the Shelf Tagged With: 2008, American-born Japanese, Ben Ohara, Calton Breen, Coffee House Press, David Mura, Heart Mountain, Japanese Americans, Mojave Desert, Northwest Asian Weekly, Turning Japanese, WWII, culture, vol 27 no 39 | September 20 - September 26

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