Theses and Dissertations
Issuing Body
Mississippi State University
Advisor
Kardos, Michael P.
Committee Member
Hagenston, Becky
Committee Member
Pierce, Catherine
Date of Degree
8-11-2017
Original embargo terms
MSU Only Indefinitely
Document Type
Graduate Thesis - Campus Access Only
Major
English
Degree Name
Master of Arts
College
College of Arts and Sciences
Department
Department of English
Abstract
My thesis will be a collection of short stories about Asian and Asian-American families and the expectations of their children that leads them to certain decisions and actions. The majority of the stories will be focused on Vietnamese-American families, but I will explore the family dynamics within the Chinese, Korean, and Japanese families as well. Through this short story collection, I hope to dramatize the internal conflicts of children of Asian and Asian-American families as they question their identities and aspirations and as they struggle to preserving culture while simultaneously creating their own individual cultures and redefining what it means to be Asian or Asian-American. For my critical introduction, I will examine the immigrant literature of Junot Diaz. Particularly influential to my own writing are Diaz’s focuses on familial relationships, his experiments with point of view, and his use of a native family language (in his case, Spanish) alongside English.
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/11668/17620
Recommended Citation
Trinh, Annie, "Don't Worry ; It's Only a White Lie" (2017). Theses and Dissertations. 1570.
https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/td/1570