Tangoing with English
Readers around me were the most influential in my study of language and literature, nurture prevailing over nature. I grew up speaking Cantonese. It was the language my grandparents spoke, my main caretakers. (more…)
Native Son, Literally
“In the Great Depression the American dream had become a nightmare. What was once the land of opportunity was now the land of desperation.” (http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade30.html). The Great Depression affected issues beyond the American economy, inadvertently emphasizing racial and class struggles. (more…)
