By Aaradhana Natarajan   To read Gene Luen Yang’s American Born Chinese is to be thrust back into the tail end of the 20th century. Published in 2006, Yang’s graphic memoir takes the struggle to fit in and find acceptance as a “perpetual foreigner” comes to vivid, dynamically illustrated life using visual language of 20th century sitcoms and cartoons/comics.  Yang never shies away from the fact that prejudice is learned, and self-consciousness is taught. We are party to his characters’ emotional journeys – one of whom, the eponymous ABC Jin Wang, stands in as an avatar for the author’s own… Read More