'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.

List 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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Edited by King-Kok Cheung

Product details

Assisted by	King-Kok Cheung (Editor)
Publisher	Rutgers University Press
Languages	English
Product format	Paperback / Softback
Released	01.03.1994
EAN	9780813520537
ISBN	978-0-8135-2053-7
No. of pages	240
Dimensions	152 mm x 229 mm x 30 mm
Weight	313 g
Series	Women Writers: Texts and Conte; Women Writers: Texts and Contexts
Subject	Fiction > Narrative literature

Product details

• Assisted by: King-Kok Cheung (Editor)
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.1994
• EAN: 9780813520537
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-2053-7
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 313 g
• Series: Women Writers: Texts and Conte; Women Writers: Texts and Contexts
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature