Understanding Karen Tei Yamashita

In short the volume serves as both a lucid introduction to a challenging author and a valuable resource for students and scholars.

About the author

Jolie A. Sheffer is an associate professor of English and American culture studies and director of the Institute for the Study of Culture and Society at Bowling Green State University. She is the author of The Romance of Race: Incest, Miscegenation, and Multiculturalism in the United States, 1880-1930. Sheffer's work has appeared in several anthologies and in journals including MELUS, the Journal of Asian American Studies, College Literature, and Pedagogy.

Summary

Provides a concise introduction to Karen Tei Yamashita's life, provides lucid analysis of key motifs, and synthesizes major research on her work. Each chapter offers, in accessible prose, original interpretations of essential works and stages in her career.

Product details

• Authors: Jolie A Sheffer, Jolie A. Sheffer
• Publisher: The University of South Carolina Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.02.2020
• EAN: 9781643360317
• ISBN: 978-1-64336-031-7
• No. of pages: 156
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 231 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 340 g
• Series: Understanding Contemporary Ame; Understanding Contemporary American Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Amerika, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Asian American