Asian American Literature

• Experience of Reality
• Identity
• Immigration
• Stereotypes (e.g., FOB)
• Difference between men and women
• Culture—Japanese American and Japanese [issei/nisei]
• filial duty/piety
• family
• identity crisis of nisei (American or Japanese?)
• citizenship
• traditional culture and values
• shame
• segregration (internment camps or plantation camps)
• class
• writing styles, Japanese (poetic) vs. American (ascerbic/blunt)
• opportunities of Nisei

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