Sticky Rice

Cynthia Wu’s provocative Sticky Rice examines representations of same-sex desires and intraracial intimacies in some of the most widely read pieces of Asian American literature. Analyzing canonical works such as John Okada’s No-No Boy , Monique Truong’s The Book of Salt , H. T. Tsiang’s And China Has Hands , and Lois-Ann Yamanaka’s Blu’s Hanging , as well as Philip Kan Gotanda’s play, Yankee Dawg You Die, Wu considers how male relationships in these texts blur the boundaries among the homosocial