Readings to go with
Disappearing Moon Café
by Sky Lee
Readings to go with
Disappearing Moon Café
by Sky Lee
(To link to articles, click on their titles.)
I. Primary Source - 1879 Drawing (click photo for larger view):
( The photo of Sky Lee above is also a primary source.)
II. Secondary Sources of various types (Periodical, Scholarly, Literary Criticism and more)
A. Periodical article: Wong, Larry. “The Canadian Chinese Exclusion Act and the veterans who overcame it.” Chinese America: History and Perspectives Annual 2007 p219(3)
B. Scholarly Literary Criticism articles about Disappearing Moon Café:
Gordon, Neta. "Charted territory: Canadian literature by women, the genealogical plot, and sky lee's disappearing moon cafe." Narrative. 14.2 (May 2006): p163. .
MacDonald, Tanis. "'Dead girl-bag': the Janet Smith case as contaminant in Sky Lee's Disappearing Moon Cafe." Studies in Canadian Literature. 27.1 (Winter 2002): p32.
Martin, Daniel. "Ghostly foundations: multicultural space and Vancouver's Chinatown in Sky Lee's Disappearing Moon Cafe." Studies in Canadian Literature. 29.1 (Winter 2004): p85.
C. Scholarly Articles from Other Fields:
Chu, Sandra Ka Hon. “Reparation as Narrative Resistance: Displacing Orientalism and Recoding Harm for Chinese Women of the Exclusion Era.” Canadian Journal of Women & the Law (0832-8781)12/1/2006. Vol.18,Iss.2;p.387-437.
Ho, David Y F. “Continuity and Variation in Chinese Patterns of Socialization.” Journal of Marriage and the Family; Feb 1989; 51, 1; Research Library Core, pg. 149.
Ngai, Mae M. "The Cold War Chinese Immigration Crisis and the Confession Cases." Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Cold War America. Princeton University Press, 2004, pp. 202-224. [handed out in class; more copies outside my office cubicle]
Takaki, Ronald. "Searching for Gold Mountain: Strangers from a Pacific Shore." A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America. New York: Little Brown and Company, 1993, pp. 191-221. handed out in class; more copies outside my office cubicle]
III. Tertiary sources (Reference)
"Sky Lee." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2006. Literature Resource Center. Gale. SEATTLE CENTRAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE. 17 July 2009 <http://go.galegroup.com.ez.sccd.ctc.edu:3048/ps/start.do?p=LitRC&u=seat92874>.
"Chinese Canadians." Encyclopedia of World Cultures Supplement, Macmillan, 2002. Reproduced in History Resource Center. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale. http://galenet.galegroup.com.ez.sccd.ctc.edu:3048/servlet/History/