Seventeen syllables
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Seventeen syllables
（Women writers : texts and contexts）
Rutgers University Press, c1994
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Includes an authoritative text of the story, along with a chronology, critical essays, and a bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-222)
Description and Table of Contents
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ISBN 9780813520520
Description
Hisaye Yamamoto's often reprinted tale of a naive American daughter and her Japanese mother captures the essence the cultural and generational conflicts so common among immigrants and their American-born children. On the surface, "Seventeen Syllables" is the story of Rosie and her preoccupation with adolescent life. Between the lines, however, lurks the tragedy of her mother, who is trapped in a marriage of desperation. Tome's deep absorption in writing haiku causes a rift with her husband, which escalates to a tragic event that changes Rosie's life forever. Yamamoto's disarming style matches the verbal economy of haiku, in which all meaning is contained within seventeen syllables. Her deft characterizations and her delineations of sexuality create a haunting story of a young girl's transformation from innocence to adulthood.
This casebook includes an introduction and an essay by the editor, an interview with the author, a chronology, authoritative texts of "Seventeen Syllables" (1949) and "Yoneko's Earthquake" (1951), critical essays, and a bibliography. The contributors are Charles L. Crow, Donald C. Goellnicht, Elaine H. Kim, Dorothy Ritsuko McDonald, Zenobia Baxter Mistri, Katharine Newman, Robert M. Payne, Robert T. Rolf, and Stan Yogi.
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: pbk ISBN 9780813520537
Description
Hisaye Yamamoto's often reprinted tale of a naive American daughter and her Japanese mother captures the essence the cultural and generational conflicts so common among immigrants and their American-born children. On the surface, "Seventeen Syllables" is the story of Rosie and her preoccupation with adolescent life. Between the lines, however, lurks the tragedy of her mother, who is trapped in a marriage of desperation. Tome's deep absorption in writing haiku causes a rift with her husband, which escalates to a tragic event that changes Rosie's life forever.
Yamamoto's disarming style matches the verbal economy of haiku, in which all meaning is contained within seventeen syllables. Her deft characterizations and her delineations of sexuality create a haunting story of a young girl's transformation from innocence to adulthood.
This casebook includes an introduction and an essay by the editor, an interview with the author, a chronology, authoritative texts of "Seventeen Syllables" (1949) and "Yoneko's Earthquake" (1951), critical essays, and a bibliography. The contributors are Charles L. Crow, Donald C. Goellnicht, Elaine H. Kim, Dorothy Ritsuko McDonald, Zenobia Baxter Mistri, Katharine Newman, Robert M. Payne, Robert T. Rolf, and Stan Yogi.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction - King-Kok Cheung
Chronology
Seventeen Syllables - Hisaye Yamamoto
Yoneko's Earthquake - Hisaye Yamamoto
Background to the Stories:
Writing - Hisaye Yamamoto
"...I Still Carry It Around" - Hisaye Yamamoto
Interview with Hisaye Yamamoto - King-Kok Cheung
Critical Essays:
The Short Stories of Hisaye Yamamoto, Japanese American Writer - Robert T. Rolf
Hisaye Yamamoto: A Woman's View - Elaine H. Kim
The Issei Father in the Fiction of Hisaye Yamamoto - Charles L. Crow
Relocation and Dislocation: The Writings of Hisaye Yamamoto and Wakako Yamauchi - Dorothy Ritsuko McDonald and Katharine Newman
Legacies Revealed: Uncovering Buried Plots in the Stories of Hisaye Yamamoto - Stan Yogi
Double-Telling: Intertextual Silence in Hisaye Yamamoto's Fiction - King-Kok Cheung
Transplanted Discourse in Yamamoto's "Seventeen Syllables" - Donald C. Goellnicht
"Seventeen Syllables": A Symbolic Haiku - Zenobia Baxter Mistri
Adapting to the Margins: Hot Summer Winds and the Stories of Hisaye Yamamoto - Robert M. Payne
Selected Bibliography
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