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A Literary Tour of the United States

Summary

Relive two sides of the Gold Rush and the populating of Northern California in the xenophobic fiction of Frank Norris and Edith Maude Eaton's writing on anti-Asian racism. See how Maxine Hong Kingston and Amy Tan memorably evoke the experience of 20th-century Chinese Americans. Witness the rise and culture of Silicon Valley and a gentrified California in novels by Kathy Wang and Tommy Orange.

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