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Karen Tei Yamashita

Teoksen Tropic of Orange tekijä

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Karen Tei Yamashita is the author of Through the Arc of the Rain Forest, Brazil-Maru, Tropic of Orange, Circle K Cycles, and I Hotel, all published by Coffee House Press. I Hotel was selected as a finalist for the National Book Award and awarded the California Book Award, the American Book Award, näytä lisää the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association Award, and the Association for Asian American Studies Book Award. She has been a u.s. Artists Ford Foundation Fellow and is currently professor of literature and creative writing and the coholder of the University of California Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. näytä vähemmän

Tekijän teokset

Tropic of Orange (1997) 315 kappaletta
I Hotel (2010) 287 kappaletta
Through the Arc of the Rain Forest (1990) 161 kappaletta
Sansei and Sensibility (2020) 87 kappaletta
Brazil-Maru (1992) 53 kappaletta
Letters to Memory (2017) 44 kappaletta
Circle K Cycles (2001) 31 kappaletta
1974: I-Migrant 2 kappaletta

Associated Works

xo Orpheus: Fifty New Myths (2013) — Avustaja — 274 kappaletta
Samurain tytär (1925) — Johdanto, eräät painokset196 kappaletta
Bold Words: A Century of Asian American Writing (2001) — Avustaja — 19 kappaletta

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Syntymäaika
1951-01-08
Sukupuoli
female
Kansalaisuus
USA

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An interesting read, it just did not engage my interest.
 
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lynnbyrdcpa | 6 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Feb 18, 2023 |
Note: I accessed a digital review copy through Edelweiss.
 
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fernandie | 2 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Sep 15, 2022 |
Entertaining and thought provoking read!
 
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AngelaLam | 4 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Feb 8, 2022 |
Karen Tei Yamashita's book of short stories is two collections in one. The first half concerns itself with sansei, the grandchildren of Japanese emigrants. In these stories, they live mainly in an affluent Japanese-American community in California. And there are essays from topics ranging from prominent women of Japanese heritage to the WWII internment camps in isolated locations and how they are being preserved.

The second half of the book is a series of stories in which the familiar characters and plots of [[Jane Austen]]'s novels are placed in that same Californian Japanese-American community and altered for our modern age, so that Mr. Collins is a high school librarian and Mrs. Bennett is the president of the PTA. These stories require a familiarity with Austen's novels, but that's probably a given for readers of Yamashita's collection.

I picked up this book because of the Austen stories, but much preferred the first section, especially the essays, which brought to life the Japanese-American experience and that of being the grandchildren of immigrants. The first story, of two sisters visiting Japan for the first time and of looking like they belong, while still being outsiders, was also fascinating.
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RidgewayGirl | 2 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Mar 15, 2021 |

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