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Diana Chang Born 1934 (age 76–77)
New YorkOccupation novelist Nationality American Genres novel, poetry Notable work(s) The Frontiers of Love
Literature portalDiana Chang (born 1934) is a Chinese American novelist and poet. She is best known for her novel The Frontiers of Love, one of the earliest novels by an Asian American woman. She is considered to be the first Chinese American (born in the States) to publish a novel in the States.[1]
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Biography
Early life
Chang was born in New York to a Chinese father and Eurasian mother, but spent her youngest years in China, including Beijing, Nanking, and Shanghai.[1] She attended high school in New York, and graduated from Barnard College. After graduation, she worked as a book editor.[2] She has also worked as the editor for the PEN-sponsored journal American Pen and as a creative writing teacher at Barnard.[1]
Literary work
Chang's best known work is The Frontiers of Love. Although early Asian Americans (e.g. Frank Chin) criticized Chang, the next generation of critics, many of them women, realized that Chang's novel anticipates contemporary questions of ethnic identity (e.g. diaspora); her work has more recently been read in terms of postmodernity and hybridity.[1] Although critical work on Chang has increased since the republication of Frontiers, critics have preferred to examine her Asian-themed works; her "white" novels are only recently getting attention.[1]
Other work
Marriage and children
Philosophical and/or political views
Published works
Novels
- The Frontiers of Love, (1956, reissued 1974)
- A Woman of Thirty (1959)
- A Passion for Life (1961)
- The Only Game in Town (1963)
- Eye to Eye (1974)
- A Perfect Love (1978)
Poetry
- The Horizon is Definitely Speaking (1982)
- What Matisse is After (1984)
- Earth Water Light (1991).
Awards
- Fulbright
- John Hay Whitney Fellowship
See also
References
Notes/Further reading
- Baringer, Sandra. "'The Hybrids and the Cosmopolitans': Race, Gender, and Masochism in Diana Chang's The Frontiers of Love" pp. 107–21 IN: Brennan, Jonathan (ed. and introd.); Mixed Race Literature. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP; 2002.
- Fink, Thomas; "Chang's 'Plunging into View'" Explicator, 1997 Spring; 55 (3): 175-77.
- Grice, Helena. "Diana Chang" pp. 30–35 IN: Madsen, Deborah L. (ed. and introd.); Asian American Writers. Detroit, MI: Gale; 2005.
- Grice, Helena. "Face-ing/De-Face-ing Racism: Physiognomy as Ethnic Marker in Early Eurasian/Amerasian Women's Texts" pp. 255–70 IN: Lee, Josephine (ed.); Lim, Imogene L. (ed.); Matsukawa, Yuko (ed.); Re/Collecting Early Asian America: Essays in Cultural History. Philadelphia, PA: Temple UP; 2002.
- Hamalian, Leo; "A MELUS Interview: Diana Chang" MELUS, 1995 Winter; 20 (4): 29-43. available online
- Ling, Amy; "Writer in the Hyphenated Condition: Diana Chang" MELUS, 1980 Winter; 7 (4): 69-83.
- Roh-Spaulding, Carol. "Diana Chang (1934- )" pp. 38–43 IN: Nelson, Emmanuel S. (ed. and preface); Asian American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Westport, CT: Greenwood; 2000.
- Spaulding, Carol Vivian; Blue-Eyed Asians: Eurasianism in the Work of Edith Eaton/Sui Sin Far, Winnifred Eaton/Onoto Watanna, and Diana Chang. Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences, 1997 Jan; 57 (7): 3024-25. U of Iowa, 1996.
- Wu, Wei-hsiung Kitty; Cultural Ideology and Aesthetic Choices: A Study of Three Works by Chinese-American Women—Diana Chang, Bette Bao Lord, and Maxine H. Kingston.' Dissertation Abstracts International, 1990 June; 50 (12): 3956A.
External links
Categories:- American novelists
- American poets
- American writers of Chinese descent
- 1934 births
- Living people
- Barnard College alumni
- American novelists of Asian descent
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