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Author | : Toshio Mori |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2015-04-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0295806427 |
Yokohama, California, originally released in 1949, is the first published collection of short stories by a Japanese American. Set in a fictional community, these linked stories are alive with the people, gossip, humor, and legends of Japanese America in the 1930s and 1940s. Replaces ISBN 9780295961675
Author | : Toshio Mori |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1949 |
Genre | : California |
ISBN | : |
"A collection of linked short stories exploring Japanese American life in a fictional California town in the 1920s and 1930s, this book is frequently cited as the first work of fiction published by a Japanese American in the United States. Originally scheduled for publication in 1942, the book was delayed by World War II, and eventually published in 1949 to brief acclaim. 'At the U.S. government incarceration camp Topaz, Mori worked for the camp newspaper and continued to write fiction. Although he remained committed to his craft the rest of his life, widespread recognition within the Japanese American community did not arrive until the 1970s, when a more receptive generation of Sansei readers, writers and critics rediscovered his work' (Densho Encyclopedia)"--Bookseller's note.
Author | : Toshio Mori |
Publisher | : Heyday Books |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
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Born in Oakland, California, in 1910, the young Toshio Mori dreamed of being an artist, a Buddhist missionary, and a baseball player. Instead, he grew flowers in the family nursery business, and -- influenced by contemporaries such as Sherwood Anderson and Ernest Hemingway -- produced a body of extraordinary fiction. Unfinished Message includes fifteen stories, a novella, correspondence, and an interview with Toshio Mori.
Author | : Nicolas Obregon |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2017-03-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1250110483 |
-Inspired by a real-life unsolved murder---Front jacket flap.
Author | : Toshio Mori |
Publisher | : Modern Times Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-05-29 |
Genre | : Japanese Americans |
ISBN | : 9781632923578 |
The Chauvinist and Other Stories features twenty-two stories of Japanese-American life, ranging in settings from pre-WWII era California, to wartime internment camps, to the postwar Nisei experience. As an Asian Times reviewer notes when The Chauvinist first appeared, Mori "cannot fail to reach [his readers] because he is an honest man, speaking from his own experience, his own suffering and happiness, his own real and human life." The writer Hisaye Yamamoto, in the original introduction to this collection, declared Mori "indisputably the pioneer of Japanese American literature." The collection's republication in this volume marks the first time these stories are widely available in over forty years. About the author: Toshio Mori (1910 - 1980) was born in Oakland and spent most of his life in San Leandro, California, where his family owned a nursery. He began writing in 1932, working at night after a day in the nursery, and was encouraged by William Saroyan, who became a lifelong friend. Mori's first book, Yokohama, California, was scheduled to appear in 1941, but the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and the ensuing anti-Japanese racism, put the book's publication on hold. Like most Japanese-Americans, Mori's family was forcefully relocated to an internment camp in Topaz, Utah, where worked as the camp historian. At the end of World War II, Mori returned to run his family nursery. His book, released in 1949, made him the first published Japanese-American author of literary fiction. Despite critical acclaim, Mori fell into relative obscurity until the early 1970's, when a new generation of Sansei-third generation Japanese-American students-discovered his writing, leading to the publication of two new books, Woman from Hiroshima and The Chauvinist and Other Stories. His third collection, Unfinished Message, was published posthumously in 2000.
Author | : Joshua Hammer |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Earthquakes |
ISBN | : 0743264657 |
This book is very wide in scope and will be extremely useful to both undergraduates and lecturers undertaking modern analytical chemistry courses.
Author | : H. Atkinson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1879 |
Genre | : Japanese language |
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Author | : John Okada |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : Japanese |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Andrew Gordon |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0520267850 |
Since its early days of mass production in the 1850s, the sewing machine has been intricately connected with the global development of capitalism. Andrew Gordon traces the machine’s remarkable journey into and throughout Japan, where it not only transformed manners of dress, but also helped change patterns of daily life, class structure, and the role of women. As he explores the selling, buying, and use of the sewing machine in the early to mid-twentieth century, Gordon finds that its history is a lens through which we can examine the modern transformation of daily life in Japan. Both as a tool of production and as an object of consumer desire, the sewing machine is entwined with the emergence and ascendance of the middle class, of the female consumer, and of the professional home manager as defining elements of Japanese modernity.
Author | : Haruo Shirane |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2015-12-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1316368289 |
The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature provides, for the first time, a history of Japanese literature with comprehensive coverage of the premodern and modern eras in a single volume. The book is arranged topically in a series of short, accessible chapters for easy access and reference, giving insight into both canonical texts and many lesser known, popular genres, from centuries-old folk literature to the detective fiction of modern times. The various period introductions provide an overview of recurrent issues that span many decades, if not centuries. The book also places Japanese literature in a wider East Asian tradition of Sinitic writing and provides comprehensive coverage of women's literature as well as new popular literary forms, including manga (comic books). An extensive bibliography of works in English enables readers to continue to explore this rich tradition through translations and secondary reading.