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No-No Boy

Name: No-No Boy
Author: John Okada

Auteur: John Okada

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: John Okada Lawson Fusao Inada

Engels
Paperback
9780295994048
01 augustus 2014
232 pagina's

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John Okada

John Okada (1923-1971) was born in Seattle, Washington, and was interned during World War II at the Minidoka War Relocation Center before joining the U.S. Air Force and earning the rank of sergeant. After the war, he finished his undergraduate degree at the University of Washington and earned a master's degree from Columbia University. His first and only novel, No-No Boy, was published in 1957. Okada died of a heart attack at the age of 47, leaving behind a wife and two children.

Karen Tei Yamashita was a National Book Award finalist for her novel I Hotel, which won 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 U.S. Artists Ford Foundation Fellow and a University of California Presidential Chair for Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies. She is a professor of literature and creative writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

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Yamada answered "no" twice in a compulsory government questionnaire as to whether he would serve in the armed forces and swear loyalty to the United States. This book tells the story of Ichiro Yamada, a fictional version of the real-life "no-no boys."

"No-No Boy has the honor of being among the first of what has become an entire literary canon of Asian American literature,” writes novelist Ruth Ozeki in her new foreword. First published in 1957, No-No Boy was virtually ignored by a public eager to put World War II and the Japanese internment behind them. It was not until the mid-1970s that a new generation of Japanese American writers and scholars recognized the novel’s importance and popularized it as one of literature’s most powerful testaments to the Asian American experience.

No-No Boy tells the story of Ichiro Yamada, a fictional version of the real-life “no-no boys.” Yamada answered “no” twice in a compulsory government questionnaire as to whether he would serve in the armed forces and swear loyalty to the United States. Unwilling to pledge himself to the country that interned him and his family, Ichiro earns two years in prison and the hostility of his family and community when he returns home to Seattle. As Ozeki writes, Ichiro’s “obsessive, tormented” voice subverts Japanese postwar “model-minority” stereotypes, showing a fractured community and one man’s “threnody of guilt, rage, and blame as he tries to negotiate his reentry into a shattered world.”

The first edition of No-No Boy since 1979 presents this important work to new generations of readers.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 01 augustus 2014
Aantal pagina's: 232
Illustraties: Nee

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Hoofdauteur: John Okada
Tweede Auteur: Lawson Fusao Inada
Hoofduitgeverij: University Of Washington Press

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Editie: 1
Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 137 mm
Product hoogte: 20 mm
Product lengte: 213 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 139 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 21 mm
Verpakking lengte: 215 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 522 g

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EAN: 9780295994048

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Taal: Engels
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