According Louie's short story Pangs of Love, Asian American figures living in the American mainstream society have not overcome their stereotypes that portrait them as effeminate and castrated. ... Because of their emasculation, they've failed to assimilate in the American mainstream. ... Pang's masculine characters is defined by the dominant white figure in the American society. ... The narrator tests it on Amanda, but she doesn't like it and says "it smell[s] dirty (Louie 80)." ... On the other hand, one critic argues that " the emasculation of the heterosexual Chinese-...

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• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School