Book
Sansei and sensibility
Audience Adults
Published 2020 by Coffee House Press, Minneapolis
ISBN 9781566895781
Bib Id 2399426
Copyright 2020
Description 213 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
More Details
Leader
04316cam a2200601 i 4500
LCCN
2019-028589
ISBN
9781566895781 (paperback) $16.95
1566895782
Call #
FIC Yamashita
Uniform Title
Short stories. Selections
Title
Sansei and sensibility
Publication Information
2020 by Coffee House Press, Minneapolis :
Copyright Date
©2020
Description
213 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents
The bath -- The dentist and the dental hygienist -- A gentlemen's agreement ? Bombay gin ? Borges & I ? Kiss of kitty ? Indian summer ? Colono:Scopy ? KonMarimasu ? Sansei recipes ? A selected L.A./Gardena J.A. Timeline ? Shikataganai & Mottainai ? Giri & Gaman ? Monterey Park ? Emi ? Japanese American gothic ? The Persu Asians ? Omaki-san ? J.A. cheat sheet ? afterword: Sansei Janeite
Summary
"The protagonists of these skillful and inventive stories have traveled various paths--from Japan to Brazil, L.A. to Gardena, San Francisco to Tokyo--but along the way, they have all become archivists, whether they know it or not. They examine the contents of deceased relatives' freezers, tape-record high-school locker-room chatter, cart the contents of a household cross-country, or collect a community's gossip while cleaning the teeth of its inhabitants. They sparkle with Karen's signature wit and humor while diving into questions of race, class, colonialism, immigration, and, above all, inheritance--familial, cultural, emotional, artistic, and otherwise. How does what we collect along the way define or negate our experiences? Can we ever really be free of it? Should we want to? In second half of the book, Yamashita imagines how Jane Austen's seven novels might look 'in a small provincial armpit of postwar sunshine' in sixties and seventies Japanese America. Mr. Darcy is the captain of the football team, Mansfield Park has materialized in a suburb of L.A., bake sales have replaced balls, and station wagons, not horse-drawn carriages, are the preferred mode of transit. In these buoyant and inventive stories, Yamashita asks what the act of transferring a 'classic' tale across boundaries-of space, time, race, genre--can tell us about the tropes that ungird our experiences."--
Genre/Form
Short stories.
Short stories
Short stories
FORMATS
SERIES
TAGS
Also available as
Tags
Availability
| header | Locations | header | header |
|---|