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As Dianne Johnson-Feelings elegantly demonstrates in this unique study of all of this author's most important works, Yep's experiences as a Chinese American in San Francisco fill his stories with firsthand knowledge of what it's like to be an outsider. Johnson-Feelings reveals Yep's intentional parallels between aliens and immigrants, as well as the deep humanity behind his portraits of outsiders struggling to cross boundaries of ethnic stereotyping and social class. And she shows us how Yep's characters rise above these limitations by virtue of their moral strength, as in The Mark Twain Murders (1981) and The Tom Sawyer Fires (1984), two novels about a homeless boy in Civil War San Francisco. Throughout her readings, Johnson-Feelings offers quotations from her interviews with Yep and from his autobiography, and these brightly illuminate his motivation and inspiration - as well as his borrowings from Chinese mythology and his own family history.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49896860057873,"sku":"CIN080578201XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/080578201X.jpg?v=1751362274"},{"product_id":"centennial-celebration-of-the-brownies-book-book-dianne-johnson-feelings-9781496841247","title":"A Centennial Celebration of the Brownies' Book","description":"The meticulously researched essays in A Centennial Celebration of The Brownies' Book get to the heart of The Brownies' Book 'project' using critical approaches both varied and illuminating.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50387013239057,"sku":"CIN1496841247G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52142506246417,"sku":"NLS9781496841247","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1496841247.jpg?v=1763475972"},{"product_id":"centennial-celebration-of-the-brownies-book-book-dianne-johnson-feelings-9781496841230","title":"A Centennial Celebration of the Brownies' Book","description":"Contributions by Jani L. 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Contributors to the volume explore the underappreciated role of Jessie Redmon Fauset in creating The Brownies’ Book and in the cultural life of Black America; describe the young people who immersed themselves in the pages of the periodical; focus on the role of Black heroes and heroines; address The Brownies’ Book in the context of critical literacy theory; and place The Brownies’ Book within the context of Black futurity and justice. Bookending the essays are, reprinted in full, the first and last issues of the magazine.   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