Asian-American Importance Around the Globe by Robert Fetter

San Fernando, CA

rjf5757 — 2025-04-30 14:37:53 UTC

The Coin Laundry laundromat in San Fernando, CA represents the struggle of the Wang family to achieve the American Dream as an immigrated family.

Chinatown, San Francisco, CA

rjf5757 — 2025-04-30 14:45:22 UTC

Chinatown in San Francisco, CA for the important setting in "Bone". This ties in with Leon's career and lifestyle in the wharfs.

CA- Post 9/11

rjf5757 — 2025-04-30 14:53:27 UTC

In "A Very Large Expanse of Sea", the setting is most importantly post 9/11, and that is why Shirin has so many struggles at her school in California. (Unnamed suburb)

Sri Lanka

rjf5757 — 2025-04-30 14:56:32 UTC

Sri Lanka in the poems we read for class represented the natural beauty people see when they visit as tourists today, but it also represents the darkness of the civil war there and the deaths that occurred.

Baltimore (B-more), Maryland

rjf5757 — 2025-04-30 15:26:24 UTC

B-more is a walled-in colony that has Asian-American laborers providing fish and vegetables for the "elites".