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John Okada : the life and rediscovered work of the author of No-no boy /
No-No Boy, John Okada's only published novel, centers on a Japanese American who refuses to fight for the country that incarcerated him and his people in World War II and is cast out by his divided community. The novel faced a similar rejection until is was rediscovered and reissued in 1976, be...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Seattle :
University of Washington Press,
[2018]
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| Colección: | Scott and Laurie Oki series in Asian American studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: saying "No! no!" to the community narrative / Frank Abe
- A note on the texts
- The life of John Okada
- "An urgency to write" / Frank Abe
- Unknown works by John Okada. I must be strong
- When in Japan: a comedy in one act
- What can I do?
- Without solace
- Skipping millions
- The silver lunchbox
- Here's proof!
- The high cost of proposals and presentations
- The technocrats of industry
- Essays on John Okada and his writings. John Okada's rediscovered writings: experiments in form and approaches to the absurd / Floyd Cheung
- A seed in a devastated landscape: John Okada and midcentury Japanese American literature / Greg Robinson
- Questioning No-no boy: text, contexts, and subtexts / Stephen H. Sumida
- False constructions of loyalty: the real resistance against incarceration / Martha Nakagawa
- Contesting Japanese American identity: a literature review of No-no boy / Jeffrey T. Yamashita
- Republishing and teaching No-no boy / Shawn Wong
- Nightsong in Asian America / Lawson Fusao Inada
- Afterword / Frank Abe.