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title	:	Unbroken Thread : An Anthology of Plays By Asian American Women
author	:	Uno, Roberta
publisher	:	University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0870238558
print isbn13	:	9780870238550
ebook isbn13	:	9780585217352
language	:	English
subject	American drama--Asian American authors, American drama--Women authors, Asian American women--Drama, Women--United States--Drama, Asian Americans--Drama.
publication date	:	1993
lcc	:	PS628.A85U53 1993eb
ddc	:	812/.540809287
subject	:	American drama--Asian American authors, American drama--Women authors, Asian American women--Drama, Women--United States--Drama, Asian Americans--Drama.

Page iii Unbroken Thread An Anthology of Plays by Asian American Women Edited by Roberta Uno THE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESS AMHERST

Page iv Copyright 1993 by The University of Massachusetts Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America LC 93-21858 ISBN 0-87023-855-8 (cloth); 856-6 (paper) Set in Sabon by Keystone Typesetting, Inc. Printed and bound by Thomson-Shore Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Unbroken thread : an anthology of plays by Asian American women / edited by Roberta Uno. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p.). Contents: Introduction Paper angels / Genny Lim The music lesson / Wakako Yamauchi Gold watch / Momoko Iko Tea / Velina Hasu Houston Walls / Jeannie Barroga Letters to a student revolutionary / Elizabeth Wong Appendix: Plays by Asian American women. ISBN 0-87023-855-8 (cloth : alk. paper). ISBN 0-87023-856-6 (paper: alk. paper). 1. American dramaAsian American authors. 2. American dramaWomen authors. 3. Asian American womenDrama. 4. WomenUnited StatesDrama. 5. Asian AmericansDrama. I. Uno, Roberta, 1956 PS628.A85U53 1993 812'.540809287dc20 93-21858 CIP British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available. Copyright notices for the individual plays appear on their title pages. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form. No performance or dramatic reading of any script or part thereof may be given without the written permission of the playwright or her representative. Inquires may be addressed to the individual playwright in care of the University of Massachusetts Press, Box 429, Amherst 01004.

Page v For Chinua and Mikiko

Page vi Acknowledgments The editor wishes to thank Hilary Edwards, Riki Hing, and Njeri Thelwell for their assistance with research and manuscript preparation for this volume. Special thanks are also due to Len Berkman, Dennis Carroll, Tisa Chang, Lee Edwards, Eric Hayashi, Leonard Hoshijo, Randy Kaplan, Sidney and Emma Nogrady Kaplan, Bea Kiyohara, Bill and Yuri Kochiyama, Wing Tek Lum, Mako, Yvonne Mendez, Mariko Miho, Franklin Odo, Chieko Tachihata, Fred Tillis, Richard Trousdell, Kiku Uno, Ernest and Grace Uno and Shawn Wong for their advice on and/or support of this project.

Page vii Contents Introduction 1 Paper Angels Genny Lim 11 The Music Lessons Wakako Hamauchi 53 Gold Watch Momoko Iko 105 Tea Velina Hasu Houston 155 Walls Jeannie Barroga 201 Letters to a Student Revolutionary Elizabeth Wong 261 Appendix: Plays by Asian American Women 309

Page 1 Introduction I am struck not with lines drawn between parents and children but how the parents' and children's lives flow into each other, how the father becomes the son and how the daughter is the mother. Thus, there is both change and continuity: there is no break, no incompatibility between "East" and "West." Elaine Kim, ''Not 'the Best of Both Worlds': Issues of Identity in Asian American Writing" The six plays of this anthology represent some of the best dramatic literature written by Asian American women since the 1970s. Each is a groundbreaking work and addresses in its own way the experiences of Asians in America. Included are plays by pioneering writers Wakako Yamauchi and Momoko Iko, as well as works written by "second-generation" writers Genny Lim and Velina Hasu Houston and by younger writers Jeannie Barroga and Elizabeth Wong. All six playwrights are American-born daughters of Asian immigrants, and their voices span the genres of naturalism, impressionism, ritual drama, postmodern collage, and media-influenced episodic drama. Although the plays are grounded in the individual cultural sensibilities of their Chinese American, Japanese American, Amerasian, and Filipino American authors, they speak of common experiences. The themes of isolation and captivity, both physical and metaphorical, run throughout. For the immigrants of Lim's Paper Angels, the immigration detention center on Angel Island in San Francisco Harbor is a prison from which they can see Gam Saan, the Gold Mountain. In The Music Lessons, a widow and her chil-

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