“How good it is to be a monkey”: Conversion and spiritual formation in Gene Luen Yang’s American Born Chinese

For me, the most complex and nuanced intersection of theology and spiritual formation written in literature for young people is contained in the work of Gene Luen Yang. The scope of this article is to explore the Christian belief of Yang’s major work to date, American Born Chinese, with the hope tha...

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Main Author: Stratman, Jacob (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Johns Hopkins University Press [2016]
In: Christianity & literature
Year: 2016, Volume: 65, Issue: 4, Pages: 490-507
RelBib Classification:CD Christianity and Culture
CH Christianity and Society
KBQ North America
TK Recent history
Further subjects:B Religious Literature History & criticism
B YANG, Gene Luen, 1973-
B Monkey King myth
B AMERICAN Born Chinese (Book : Yang)
B Immigrants United States
B Gene Luen Yang
B Spiritual Formation
B Chinese Americans
B Graphic novel
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