Letters to Memory

Karen Tei Yamashita (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

160 Seiten

2017
Coffee House Press (Verlag)
9781566894876 (ISBN)

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This dive into the Yamashita family archive and Japanese internment runs a documentary impulse through filters that shimmer with imagination.

Karen is a giant in Asian American literature, and this new work is a skeleton key for her fiction, positioning it in relationship to her family history and her wide-ranging curiosity, and offering fans a glimpse into the sources of her imaginative work
While this is the story of the internment and its repercussions for the Yamashita family, Karen's formal choices, including using different disciplines as lenses for ideas (forgiveness, debt, civil rights) make it an expansive work of deep moral seriousness
Documentary instincts are a part of Karen's writing (most visible in I Hotel and Circle K Cycles) but historical grounding and issues of migration, integration, separation (voluntary and not), and community making are present in all.
Despite the gravity of the subject, Karen is reliably a funny writer, and one whose voice (casual, disarming, a tug on the sleeve) animates these stories
The use of primary source materials makes the characters come alive?we can see their handwriting, their faces, their paintings.
The book links back to an extensive archive of correspondence, photography, and other holdings, making the book far larger than what's on the page.

Karen Tei Yamashita: Karen Tei Yamashita is the author of Through the Arc of the Rain Forest, Brazil-Maru, Tropic of Orange, Circle K Cycles, I Hotel, and Anime Wong, all published by Coffee House Press. I Hotel was selected as a finalist for the National Book Award and awarded the California Book Award, the American Book Award, the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association Award, and the Association for Asian American Studies Book Award. She has been a US Artists Ford Foundation Fellow and co-holder of the University of California Presidential Chair for Feminist & Critical Race & Ethnic Studies. She is currently Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Erscheinungsdatum	01.02.2018
Zusatzinfo	Color photos throughout
Verlagsort	MN
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 228 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher
	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9781566894876 / 9781566894876
Zustand	Neuware