King-Kok Cheung

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King-Kok Cheung
Occupation Professor
Nationality United States
Genre Fiction
Literary criticism
Notable worksArticulate Silences: Hisaye Yamamoto, Maxine Hong Kingston, Joy Kogawa

King-Kok Cheung is an American literary critic specializing in Asian American literature and is a professor in the department of English at UCLA. [1]

Cheung grew up on Hong Kong Island. [2]

Cheung received her Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Berkeley in 1984.


Selected bibliography

Notes

  1. ↑ "Citations search: "King-Kok Cheung" (Google Books)" . Retrieved 2008-09-21.
  2. ↑ Fong, Ken (August 13, 2019). "King-Kok Cheung". Asian America: The Ken Fong Podcast (Podcast). Retrieved January 29, 2020.
  3. ↑ Review of Asian-American Literature:
  4. ↑ Reviews of Articulate Silences:
  5. ↑ Reviews of An Interethnic Companion to Asian American Literature:
  6. ↑ Reviews of Words Matter:


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