Interracial Encounters: Reciprocal Representations in African and Asian American Literatures, 1896-1937 - Paperbackby Julia H. Lee (Author) 2013 Honorable Mention, Asian American Studies Association's prize in Literary Studies Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series Why do black characters appear so frequently in Asian American literary works and Asian characters appear in African American literary works in the early twentieth century? Interracial Encounters attempts to answer this rather straightforward literary question, arguing that scenes depicting