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Karen Tei Yamashita : Fictions of Magic and Memory / ed. by A. Robert Lee.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (216 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780824872946
  • 9780824874056
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813.54 23
LOC classification:
  • PS3575.A44 Z74 2018
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Karen Tei Yamashita and the Cultivation of Cosmopolitan Virtue -- Chapter Two: Narratives of Dislocation in the Novels of Karen Tei Yamashita, Joy Kogawa, and Julie Otsuka -- Chapter Three: "Dancing with Goblins in Plastic Jungles": History, Nikkei Transnationalism, and Romantic Environmentalism in Through the Arc of the Rain Forest -- Chapter Four: Did You Hear the One About . . . ? Humor in Through the Arc of the Rain Forest and Brazil-Maru -- Chapter Five: Environment, Justice, Aesthetics: Through the Arc of the Rain Forest and My Year of Meats -- Chapter Six: An Incomplete Journey: Settlement and Power in Brazil-Maru -- Chapter Seven: Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange and Chaos Theory: Angels and a Motley Crew -- Chapter Eight: (Re)Production Cycles: Labor and Identity in Circle K Cycles -- Chapter Nine: House of Memory: Imagining Karen Tei Yamashita's I Hotel -- Chapter Ten: Shift of Scene: Re-viewing Anime Wong -- Chapter Eleven: Reimagining Traveling Bodies: Bridging the Future/Past -- Chapter Twelve: Speaking Craft: An Interview with Karen Tei Yamashita -- Bibliography of Karen Tei Yamashita's Works -- Contributors -- Index
Summary: Karen Tei Yamashita's novels, essays, and performance scripts have garnered considerable praise from scholars and reviewers, and are taught not only in the United States but in at least half a dozen countries in Asia, South America, and Europe. Her work has been written about in numerous disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Karen Tei Yamashita: Fictions of Magic and Memory is the first anthology given over to Yamashita's writing. It contains newly commissioned essays by established, international scholars; a recent interview with the author; a semiautobiographical keynote address delivered at an international conference that ruminates on her Japanese American heritage; and a full bibliography. The essays offer fresh and in-depth readings of the magic realist canvas of Through the Arc of the Rain Forest (1990); the Japanese emigrant portraiture of Brazil-Maru (1992); Los Angeles as rambunctious geopolitical and transnational fulcrum of the Americas in Tropic of Orange (1997); the fraught relationship of Japanese and Brazilian heritage and labor in Circle K Cycles (2001); Asian American history and politics of the 1960s in I Hotel (2010); and Anime Wong (2014), a gallery of performativity illustrating the contested and inextricable nature of East and West. This essay-collection explores Yamashita's use of the fantastical, the play of emerging transnational ethnicity, and the narrative tactics of reflexivity and bricolage in storytelling located on a continuum of the unique and the communal, of the past and the present, and that are mapped in various spatial and virtual realities.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Karen Tei Yamashita and the Cultivation of Cosmopolitan Virtue -- Chapter Two: Narratives of Dislocation in the Novels of Karen Tei Yamashita, Joy Kogawa, and Julie Otsuka -- Chapter Three: "Dancing with Goblins in Plastic Jungles": History, Nikkei Transnationalism, and Romantic Environmentalism in Through the Arc of the Rain Forest -- Chapter Four: Did You Hear the One About . . . ? Humor in Through the Arc of the Rain Forest and Brazil-Maru -- Chapter Five: Environment, Justice, Aesthetics: Through the Arc of the Rain Forest and My Year of Meats -- Chapter Six: An Incomplete Journey: Settlement and Power in Brazil-Maru -- Chapter Seven: Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange and Chaos Theory: Angels and a Motley Crew -- Chapter Eight: (Re)Production Cycles: Labor and Identity in Circle K Cycles -- Chapter Nine: House of Memory: Imagining Karen Tei Yamashita's I Hotel -- Chapter Ten: Shift of Scene: Re-viewing Anime Wong -- Chapter Eleven: Reimagining Traveling Bodies: Bridging the Future/Past -- Chapter Twelve: Speaking Craft: An Interview with Karen Tei Yamashita -- Bibliography of Karen Tei Yamashita's Works -- Contributors -- Index

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Karen Tei Yamashita's novels, essays, and performance scripts have garnered considerable praise from scholars and reviewers, and are taught not only in the United States but in at least half a dozen countries in Asia, South America, and Europe. Her work has been written about in numerous disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Karen Tei Yamashita: Fictions of Magic and Memory is the first anthology given over to Yamashita's writing. It contains newly commissioned essays by established, international scholars; a recent interview with the author; a semiautobiographical keynote address delivered at an international conference that ruminates on her Japanese American heritage; and a full bibliography. The essays offer fresh and in-depth readings of the magic realist canvas of Through the Arc of the Rain Forest (1990); the Japanese emigrant portraiture of Brazil-Maru (1992); Los Angeles as rambunctious geopolitical and transnational fulcrum of the Americas in Tropic of Orange (1997); the fraught relationship of Japanese and Brazilian heritage and labor in Circle K Cycles (2001); Asian American history and politics of the 1960s in I Hotel (2010); and Anime Wong (2014), a gallery of performativity illustrating the contested and inextricable nature of East and West. This essay-collection explores Yamashita's use of the fantastical, the play of emerging transnational ethnicity, and the narrative tactics of reflexivity and bricolage in storytelling located on a continuum of the unique and the communal, of the past and the present, and that are mapped in various spatial and virtual realities.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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