"Of course, I'm an ethnic writer, and only benighted people see ethnics as not partaking of the macrocosmic. And only Chinese Americans who are very mad would kick an admirer of Henry James and William Carlos Williams out of our family"
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Short story writers from the United StatesNon-fiction authors from the United StatesMemoirists from the United StatesEducators from the United StatesFeminists from the United States
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An Answer to the Question, "Who Is an Ethnic Writer?" (1982)
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