| Description |
1 online resource (x, 176 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
Letters to Poverty -- Letters to Modernity -- Letters to Love -- Letters to Death -- Letters to Laughter |
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To begin -- Poverty -- Modernity -- Love -- Death -- Laughter -- To end |
| Summary |
"Praise for Karen Tei Yamashita: "It's a stylistically wild ride, but it's smart, funny and entrancing."--NPR "Fluid and poetic as well as terrifying."--New York Times Book Review With delightful plays of voice and structure, this is literary fiction at an adventurous, experimental high point."--Kirkus "Magnificent. Intriguing."--Library Journal "This powerful, deeply felt, and impeccably researched fiction is irresistibly evocative." -Publishers Weekly (starred review) Scintillations is an excursion through the Japanese internment using archival materials from the Yamashita family as well as a series of epistolary conversations with composite characters representing a range of academic specialties. Historians, anthropologists, classicists-their disciplines, and Yamashita's engagement with them, are a way for her explore various aspects of the internment and to expand its meaning beyond her family, and our borders, to ideas of debt, forgiveness, civil rights, Orientalism, and community"-- Provided by publisher |
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Letters to Memory is an excursion through the Japanese internment using archival materials from the Yamashita family as well as a series of epistolary conversations with composite characters representing a range of academic specialties. Historians, anthropologists, classicists--their disciplines, and Yamashita's engagement with them, are a way for her to explore various aspects of the internment and to expand its meaning beyond her family, and our borders, to ideas of debt, forgiveness, civil rights, orientalism, and community-- Publisher's website |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-176) |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 -- Fiction
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Japanese Americans -- Fiction
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Cultural Heritage.
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HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Asian American Studies.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Personal Memoirs.
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FICTION -- Historical.
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FICTION -- Biographical.
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Japanese Americans
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
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| Subject |
United States
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| Genre/Form |
Biographical fiction
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Epistolary fiction
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Fiction
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Historical fiction
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History
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Biographical fiction.
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Epistolary fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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Biographical fiction.
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Epistolary fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781566894982 |
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1566894980 |
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