'Seventeen Syllables'

Hisaye Yamamoto

AvKing-Kok Cheung

Häftad, Engelska, 1994

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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.Yamamoto's disarming style matches the verbal economy of haiku, in which all meaning is contained within seventeen syllables. Her deft characterizations and her delineations of sexuality create a haunting story of a young girl's transformation from innocence to adulthood.This casebook includes an introduction and an essay by the editor, an interview with the author, a chronology, authoritative texts of "Seventeen Syllables" (1949) and "Yoneko's Earthquake" (1951), critical essays, and a bibliography. The contributors are Charles L. Crow, Donald C. Goellnicht, Elaine H. Kim, Dorothy Ritsuko McDonald, Zenobia Baxter Mistri, Katharine Newman, Robert M. Payne, Robert T. Rolf, and Stan Yogi.

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Utgivningsdatum:1994-03-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 30 mm
Vikt:313 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Women Writers: Texts and Contexts
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:Rutgers University Press
ISBN:9780813520537

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King-Kok Cheung is an associate professor of English at the Unviersity of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Articulate Silences: Hisaye Yamamoto, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Joy Kogawa and the editor of Asian American Literature: An Annotated Bibliography.

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AcknowledgementsIntroduction - King-Kok CheungChronologySeventeen Syllables - Hisaye YamamotoYoneko's Earthquake - Hisaye YamamotoBackground to the Stories:Writing - Hisaye Yamamoto"...I Still Carry It Around" - Hisaye YamamotoInterview with Hisaye Yamamoto - King-Kok CheungCritical Essays:The Short Stories of Hisaye Yamamoto, Japanese American Writer - Robert T. RolfHisaye Yamamoto: A Woman's View - Elaine H. KimThe Issei Father in the Fiction of Hisaye Yamamoto - Charles L. CrowRelocation and Dislocation: The Writings of Hisaye Yamamoto and Wakako Yamauchi - Dorothy Ritsuko McDonald and Katharine NewmanLegacies Revealed: Uncovering Buried Plots in the Stories of Hisaye Yamamoto - Stan YogiDouble-Telling: Intertextual Silence in Hisaye Yamamoto's Fiction - King-Kok CheungTransplanted Discourse in Yamamoto's "Seventeen Syllables" - Donald C. Goellnicht"Seventeen Syllables": A Symbolic Haiku - Zenobia Baxter MistriAdapting to the Margins: Hot Summer Winds and the Stories of Hisaye Yamamoto - Robert M. PayneSelected BibliographyPermissions