David Henry Hwang | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 21 pages of analysis & critique of David Henry Hwang.

David Henry Hwang | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 21 pages of analysis & critique of David Henry Hwang.
This section contains 6,120 words
(approx. 21 pages at 300 words per page)
Buy the Interview by David Henry Hwang and Bonnie Lyons

SOURCE: Hwang, David Henry, and Bonnie Lyons. “‘Making His Muscles Work for Himself’: An Interview with David Henry Hwang.” Literary Review 42, no. 2 (winter 1999): 230-44.

In the following interview, which took place on September 7, 1996, Hwang muses on his early rise to fame, details the elements of playwriting that he focuses on, provides his view on Asian Americans in the arts, and discusses how he has matured personally and artistically since the beginning of his career.

Raised in a wealthy Los Angeles suburb by a first generation, Chinese American fundamentalist Christian family, David Henry Hwang wrote and directed his first play, F.O.B. (slang for “fresh off the boat”), which explores the tensions within and between recent and assimilated Chinese immigrants. F.O.B. won an Obie when it moved to New York in 1980 and since then many of Hwang's plays, including The Dance of the Railroad (1981), Family Devotions...

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This section contains 6,120 words
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Buy the Interview by David Henry Hwang and Bonnie Lyons
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