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HARA, MARIE MURPHY

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Downtown Hono., T.H.
Issue Title: Intersecting Circles: the voices of hapa women in poetry and prose
Page(s): 111-131
Published: 1999

Negotiating the Hyphen
Issue Title: Intersecting Circles: the voices of hapa women in poetry and prose
Page(s): 9-16
Published: 1999

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Sun: Short Stories & Drama
ISBN: 0-910043-02-7
This landmark collection, published in 1980, is the first fiction and drama collection by a local Chinese writer. The stories include classics such as "Beer Can Hat" as well as experimental pieces and "Oranges Are Lucky," a one-act play that revolves around the generational differences between a Chinese-speaking grandmother and her English-speaking grandchildren. This collection established Lum’s signature pidgin narratives that have since become favorites among Hawai‘i readers. "In a world that is forgetting and rejecting its past, separate voices may preserve what little is left or create a new heritage. Darrell H.Y. Lum’s work demonstrates that mainlanders can comprehend pidgin and that island writers, in either pidgin or standard English, have something to say to everyone."—The Paper