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Asian-American pancake
Miner, Valerie | June 17, 1996 issue

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The article critically appraises the book "Mona in the Promised Land," by Gish Jen. The book presents story of Ralph and Helen Chang, an immigrant couple in the U.S. Jen in his book shows how their exercise of control as protection engraves deep generational rifts. In this late-twentieth-century American Bildungsroman, Jen deftly investigates sexuality, class, religion, politics and race through the curious eyes of charming Mona Chang. From adolescence to early motherhood, Mona explores identity variously as imprinted, mutable and chosen.

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MONA in the Promised Land (Book); JEN, Gish; CRITICISM; CONFLICT of generations; MOTHERHOOD; SEX
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