'Seventeen Syllables' - Hisaye Yamamoto

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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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Über den Autor / die Autorin

King-Kok Cheung is an associate professor of English at the Unviersity of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Articulate Silences: Hisaye Yamamoto, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Joy Kogawa and the editor of Asian American Literature: An Annotated Bibliography.

Produktdetails

Mitarbeit	King-Kok Cheung (Herausgeber)
Verlag	Rutgers University Press
Sprache	Englisch
Produktform	Taschenbuch
Erschienen	01.03.1994
EAN	9780813520537
ISBN	978-0-8135-2053-7
Seiten	240
Abmessung	152 mm x 229 mm x 30 mm
Gewicht	313 g
Serien	Women Writers: Texts and Conte; Women Writers: Texts and Contexts
Thema	Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur

Produktdetails

• Mitarbeit: King-Kok Cheung (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.03.1994
• EAN: 9780813520537
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-2053-7
• Seiten: 240
• Abmessung: 152 mm x 229 mm x 30 mm
• Gewicht: 313 g
• Serien: Women Writers: Texts and Conte; Women Writers: Texts and Contexts
• Thema: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur