Seventeen syllables and other stories

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Seventeen syllables and other stories

Hisaye Yamamoto ; introduction by King-Kok Cheung

Rutgers University Press, 2001

Rev. and expanded ed

  • : pbk., alk. paper

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Bibliography: p. [173]-178

Includes index

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内容説明

Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories brings together nineteen stories that span Hisaye Yamamoto's forty-year career. It was her first book to be published in the United States. Yamamoto's themes include the cultural conflicts between the first generation, the Issei, and their children, the Nisei; coping with prejudice; and the World War II internment of Japanese Americans. In addition to the contents of the original volume, this edition brings back into print the following works: - Death Rides the Rails to Poston - Eucalyptus - A Fire in Fontana - Florentine Gardens

目次

Contents Introduction ix The High-Heeled Shoes, A Memoir 1 Seventeen Syllables 8 The Legend of Miss Sasagawara 20 Wilshire Bus 34 The Brown House 39 Yoneko's Earthquake 46 Morning Rain 57 Epithalamium 60 Las Vegas Charley 70 Life Among the Oil Fields, A Memoir 86 The Eskimo Connection 96 My Father Can Beat Muhammad Ali 105 Underground Lady 109 A Day in Little Tokyo 114 Reading and Writing 122 Preface to the Revised and Expanded Edition 129 Death Rides the Rails to Poston 131 Eucalyptus 142 A Fire in Fontana 150 Florentine Gardens 158 Selected Bibliography 173

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