Analysis of Yang’s American Identity in Literature

Analysis of Yang’s American Identity in Literature

Kao Kalia Yang, the author of The Latehomecomer, is an American in several ways; first, legally by the fact that she acquired American citizenship, embraced the American system, culture, and dream by embracing American education as she schooled until she became a professor- through assimilation- and lastly the fact that America is the only place she can ever call home as she was born in 1980 in Thailand refugee camp. She has lived almost her entire life in America-growing up, schooling, and currently works in America as a professor besides being a writer and an…