Songs My Mother Taught Me Stories, Plays, and Memoir

Name: Songs My Mother Taught Me Stories, Plays, and Memoir
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ISBN: 9781558610866

ISBN-10: 1558610863

ISBN-13: 9781558610866

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Authors: Wakako Yamauchi, Garrett Hongo, Valerie Miner, Valerie Miner

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Acirc; Acirc; Acirc; Songs My Mother Taught Me is the first collection of literature by this mature and accomplished writer. In her eloquent prose, Yamauchi, a Nisei (second-generation Japanese American) illuminates the neglected social and emotional history of two generations of Japanese in the United States, recalling the harsh lives of rural immigrants, tenant farmers, and itinerant laborers. Informed by her own family history, her stories and plays recreate the wartime relocation of Japanese Americans and their postwar return to urban centers. She captures their ambivalent longings for the prewar family and culture of Japan. She also writes more recently of very young Mexican…

Book details

List price: $18.95
Publisher: Feminist Press at The City University of New York
Publication date: 6/1/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.01" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction



And the Soul Shall Dance


In Heaven and Earth


Songs My Mother Taught Me


The Boatmen on Toneh River


That Was All


The Music Lessons


The Sensei


Shirley Temple, Hotcha-cha


The Handkerchief


Charted Lives


The Coward


Maybe


And the Soul Shall Dance


Makapuu Bay


A Veteran of Foreign Wars


Old Times, Old Stories


So What; Who Cares?


Otoko


Afterword



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