Author: Karen Tei Yamashita
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
With skill, imagination, and wit, Yamashita defines an emerging challenge of twenty-first century global society.
Circle K Cycles
Author: Karen Tei Yamashita
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
With skill, imagination, and wit, Yamashita defines an emerging challenge of twenty-first century global society.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
With skill, imagination, and wit, Yamashita defines an emerging challenge of twenty-first century global society.
Anime Wong
Author: Karen Tei Yamashita
Publisher: Coffee House Press
ISBN: 1566893402
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Giant foam rubber sushi and cyborg kungfu fighters populate performances that reflect questions of gender, identity, orientalism, and racial politics.
Publisher: Coffee House Press
ISBN: 1566893402
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Giant foam rubber sushi and cyborg kungfu fighters populate performances that reflect questions of gender, identity, orientalism, and racial politics.
Through the Arc of the Rain Forest
Author: Karen Tei Yamashita
Publisher: Coffee House Press
ISBN: 1566895049
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
"Fluid and poetic as well as terrifying." —New York Times Book Review "Dazzling . . . a seamless mixture of magic realism, satire and futuristic fiction." —San Francisco Chronicle "Impressive . . . a flight of fancy through a dreamlike Brazil." —Village Voice "Surreal and misty, sweeping from one high-voltage scene to another." —LA Weekly "Amuses and frightens at the same time." —Newsday "Incisive and funny, this book yanks our chains and makes us see the absurdity that rules our world." —Booklist (starred review) "Expansive and ambitious . . . incredible and complicated." —Library Journal "This satiric morality play about the destruction of the Amazon rain forest unfolds with a diversity and fecundity equal to its setting. . . . Yamashita seems to have thrown into the pot everything she knows and most that she can imagine—all to good effect." —Publishers Weekly A Japanese man with a ball floating six inches in front of his head, an American CEO with three arms, and a Brazilian peasant who discovers the art of healing by tickling one's earlobe, rise to the heights of wealth and fame, before arriving at disasters—both personal and ecological—that destroy the rain forest and all the birds of Brazil. 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.
Publisher: Coffee House Press
ISBN: 1566895049
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
"Fluid and poetic as well as terrifying." —New York Times Book Review "Dazzling . . . a seamless mixture of magic realism, satire and futuristic fiction." —San Francisco Chronicle "Impressive . . . a flight of fancy through a dreamlike Brazil." —Village Voice "Surreal and misty, sweeping from one high-voltage scene to another." —LA Weekly "Amuses and frightens at the same time." —Newsday "Incisive and funny, this book yanks our chains and makes us see the absurdity that rules our world." —Booklist (starred review) "Expansive and ambitious . . . incredible and complicated." —Library Journal "This satiric morality play about the destruction of the Amazon rain forest unfolds with a diversity and fecundity equal to its setting. . . . Yamashita seems to have thrown into the pot everything she knows and most that she can imagine—all to good effect." —Publishers Weekly A Japanese man with a ball floating six inches in front of his head, an American CEO with three arms, and a Brazilian peasant who discovers the art of healing by tickling one's earlobe, rise to the heights of wealth and fame, before arriving at disasters—both personal and ecological—that destroy the rain forest and all the birds of Brazil. 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.
Tropic of Orange
Author: Karen Tei Yamashita
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
An apocalypse of race, class, and culture, fanned by the media and the harsh L.A. sun.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
An apocalypse of race, class, and culture, fanned by the media and the harsh L.A. sun.
Letters to Memory
Author: Karen Tei Yamashita
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781566894876
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This dive into the Yamashita family archive and Japanese internment runs a documentary impulse through filters that shimmer with imagination.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781566894876
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This dive into the Yamashita family archive and Japanese internment runs a documentary impulse through filters that shimmer with imagination.
Brazil-Maru
Author: Karen Tei Yamashita
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781566890168
Category : Japanese
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
When the United States closed its doors to Japanese immigrants, hundreds of thousands of them made their way to the coffee plantations and the then-open spaces of Brazil. In this engrossing multigenerational novel, award-winning author Karen Tei Yamashita tells the story of one idealistic band of these immigrants, who arrive in 1925 on a ship named the Brazil-Maru and set out to carve a utopia out of the jungle. Led by the charismatic Kantaro Uno, the pioneers create a civilization built around his passions for baseball, painting, chickens, and their own socialist sentiments. They endure struggles in clearing the land, maintaining their identity, adapting to a new world, and fighting the backlash caused by World War II. Inevitably, however, the turbulent course Kantaro has set leads the community called Esperanca in a direction no one could have predicted. Told through the eyes of five characters covering three generations of Esperanca's history, Brazil-Maru explores themes that resonate with the reality of all immigrant history: the dream of creating a new world, the cost of idealism, the symbiotic tie between a people and the land they settle, and the changes demanded by the appearance of a new generation.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781566890168
Category : Japanese
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
When the United States closed its doors to Japanese immigrants, hundreds of thousands of them made their way to the coffee plantations and the then-open spaces of Brazil. In this engrossing multigenerational novel, award-winning author Karen Tei Yamashita tells the story of one idealistic band of these immigrants, who arrive in 1925 on a ship named the Brazil-Maru and set out to carve a utopia out of the jungle. Led by the charismatic Kantaro Uno, the pioneers create a civilization built around his passions for baseball, painting, chickens, and their own socialist sentiments. They endure struggles in clearing the land, maintaining their identity, adapting to a new world, and fighting the backlash caused by World War II. Inevitably, however, the turbulent course Kantaro has set leads the community called Esperanca in a direction no one could have predicted. Told through the eyes of five characters covering three generations of Esperanca's history, Brazil-Maru explores themes that resonate with the reality of all immigrant history: the dream of creating a new world, the cost of idealism, the symbiotic tie between a people and the land they settle, and the changes demanded by the appearance of a new generation.
Across Meridians
Author: Jinqi Ling
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804782040
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Over the course of the last two decades, novelist Karen Tei Yamashita has reshaped the Asian American literary imagination in profound ways. In Across Meridians, Jinqi Ling offers readers the most critically engaged examination to date of Yamashita's literary corpus. Crafted at the intersection of intellectual history, ethnic studies, literary analysis, and critical theory, Ling's study goes beyond textual investigation to intervene in larger debates over postmodern representation, spatial materialism, historical form, and social and academic activism. Arguing that Yamashita's most important contribution is her incorporation of a North-South vector into the East-West conceptual paradigm, Ling highlights the novelist's re-prioritization, through such a geographical realignment, of socio-economic concerns for Asian American literary criticism. In assessing Yamashita's works as such, Ling designates her novelistic art as a form of new Asian American literary avant-garde that operates from the peripheries of received histories, aesthetics, and disciplines. Seeking not only to demonstrate the importance of Yamashita's transnational art, Ling sets new terms for ongoing dialogues in Asian American literary and cultural criticism. At the same time, he argues for the continuing relevance of Asian American literature as a self-reflexive and self-renewable critical practice.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804782040
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Over the course of the last two decades, novelist Karen Tei Yamashita has reshaped the Asian American literary imagination in profound ways. In Across Meridians, Jinqi Ling offers readers the most critically engaged examination to date of Yamashita's literary corpus. Crafted at the intersection of intellectual history, ethnic studies, literary analysis, and critical theory, Ling's study goes beyond textual investigation to intervene in larger debates over postmodern representation, spatial materialism, historical form, and social and academic activism. Arguing that Yamashita's most important contribution is her incorporation of a North-South vector into the East-West conceptual paradigm, Ling highlights the novelist's re-prioritization, through such a geographical realignment, of socio-economic concerns for Asian American literary criticism. In assessing Yamashita's works as such, Ling designates her novelistic art as a form of new Asian American literary avant-garde that operates from the peripheries of received histories, aesthetics, and disciplines. Seeking not only to demonstrate the importance of Yamashita's transnational art, Ling sets new terms for ongoing dialogues in Asian American literary and cultural criticism. At the same time, he argues for the continuing relevance of Asian American literature as a self-reflexive and self-renewable critical practice.
Generation to Generation
Author: Kelin E. Gersick
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
ISBN: 087584555X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Generation to Generation will help managers understand the special dynamics & challenges that family businesses face as they move through their life cycles. It explains how to handle succession, & the role of non-family professionals.
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
ISBN: 087584555X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Generation to Generation will help managers understand the special dynamics & challenges that family businesses face as they move through their life cycles. It explains how to handle succession, & the role of non-family professionals.
Sansei and Sensibility
Author: Karen Tei Yamashita
Publisher: Coffee House Press
ISBN: 1566895863
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
In these buoyant and inventive stories, Karen Tei Yamashita transfers classic tales across boundaries and questions what an inheritance—familial, cultural, emotional, artistic—really means. In a California of the sixties and seventies, characters examine the contents of deceased relatives' freezers, tape-record high school locker-room chatter, or collect a community's gossip while cleaning the teeth of its inhabitants. Mr. Darcy is the captain of the football team, Mansfield Park materializes in a suburb of L.A., bake sales replace ballroom dances, and station wagons, not horse-drawn carriages, are the preferred mode of transit. The stories of traversing class, race, and gender leap into our modern world with and humor.
Publisher: Coffee House Press
ISBN: 1566895863
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
In these buoyant and inventive stories, Karen Tei Yamashita transfers classic tales across boundaries and questions what an inheritance—familial, cultural, emotional, artistic—really means. In a California of the sixties and seventies, characters examine the contents of deceased relatives' freezers, tape-record high school locker-room chatter, or collect a community's gossip while cleaning the teeth of its inhabitants. Mr. Darcy is the captain of the football team, Mansfield Park materializes in a suburb of L.A., bake sales replace ballroom dances, and station wagons, not horse-drawn carriages, are the preferred mode of transit. The stories of traversing class, race, and gender leap into our modern world with and humor.
Cycles of Fire
Author: William K. Hartmann
Publisher: Workman Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
A stunningly illustrated guide to the stars with photographs, charts, and more than 100 paintings.
Publisher: Workman Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
A stunningly illustrated guide to the stars with photographs, charts, and more than 100 paintings.