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Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories brings together fifteen stories that span Hisaye Yamamoto's forty-year career. It was her first book to be published in the United States. Yamamoto's themes include the cultural conflicts between the first generation, the Issei and their children, the Nisei; coping with prejudice; and the World War II internment of Japanese Americans. (view table of contents)
Paperback:
9780813529530 | Revised edition (Rutgers Univ Pr, May 1, 2001), cover price $23.95
9780813526072 | Rutgers Univ Pr, December 1, 1998, cover price $14.00
9780913175149 | Kitchen Table/Women of Color Pr, September 1, 1988, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories brings together fifteen stories that span Hisaye Yamamoto's forty-year career.
Product Description: Hisaye Yamamoto's often-reprinted tale of a naive American daughter and her Japanese mother captures the essence of the cultural and generational conflicts so common among immigrants and their American-born children.This casebook includes an introduction and an essay by the editor, an interview with the author, a chronology, authoritative texts of "Seventeen Syllables" (1949) and "Yoneko's Earthquake" (1951), critical essays, and a bibliography...read more
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9780813520520 | Rutgers Univ Pr, March 1, 1994, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Hisaye Yamamoto's often-reprinted tale of a naive American daughter and her Japanese mother captures the essence of the cultural and generational conflicts so common among immigrants and their American-born children.
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