Abstract :
This review situates how culture, difference, and identity are discursively
constructed in Millicent Min, Girl Genius and Stanford Wong Flunks Big-
Time, two award-winning books written by critically acclaimed Asian American
author Lisa Yee. Using contextual literacy approaches, the characters, cultural
motifs, and physical settings in these texts are deconstructed to explore the nuances
of Asian American youth identities that intersect along the lines of class, gender,
and race. This review ends by offering teaching strategies for explicating Asian
American young adult literature to critically investigate the representations of Asian
American counter-narratives, experiences, and youth culture
