Sansei And Sensibility

by Karen Tei Yamashita

2021-01-14 15:56:43

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... Read more
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. Less

Book Details

File size9.01 X 6.2 X 0.62 in
Print pages224
PublisherCoffee House Press
Publication date May 15, 2020
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781566895781
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 Pre...

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