Anthony's A-POP Blog

Unaccustomed Earth The structure of the story is more traditional than the stories that we have read in previous weeks. I wonder if there is a specific reason for that like in “We Should Never Meet” or if it is… Continue Reading →

Miss Lien No distinguishing marks for dialogue (at least in the ebook). It makes the narration and dialogue flow into the same structure almost as if poetry. It seems to be going back and forth between the “present” and the… Continue Reading →

A Temporary Marriage On page 4, she describes a villa in the hills as a medieval castle. Is this describing something as western in Korea, or is it merely talking about the time period? Still an interesting description in a… Continue Reading →

  Dark Blue Suit There is a certain style in Bacho’s descriptions. A calm tone to very heavy topics, almost a passivity in the description. This repeats itself in more of his stories. “Uncles” on page 8 remind me of… Continue Reading →

Railroad Standard Time The narrator devalues the words in English. Later, there are even more characters that devalue the use of English and prefer Chinese. This is a common theme in chin’s work. Through most of the stories in the… Continue Reading →

High Heeled Shoes It’s an interesting perspective, to have mixed feelings about how the man is approaching her. On one end, she’s disturbed because a stranger using a phonebook to talk with women. But on the other hand, she “worries”… Continue Reading →

Asian Americans as a Movement: The term Asian American is somewhat used to divide those who come from different parts of the world. However, that is not to say that there are not differences between different ethnic groups and the… Continue Reading →

  “These apparent contradictions reveal much about the nature of Asian Americans’ participation in the popular. They suggest, for instance, that there are firm if not always clear distinctions between cultural and political representation- that ideas permissible in the realm… Continue Reading →