No-No Boy by John Okada [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]
02 Mar, by in Adult Readers, Fiction, Japanese American, Repost
Ichiro Yamada, a second-generation Japanese American, returns to his home city of Seattle after spending two years in an American prison camp and another two years in jail. He returns home a pariah, for...
Young, naive Dimple Dasgupta marries an engineer bound for the U.S. and embarks on a new American adventure. But her expectations – of being married, of being a dutiful wife, of living a glamorous new life...
The autobiographical account of a second-generation Japanese American woman growing up in Berkeley, California, and her family’s internment experiences at Camp Topaz during World War II.
During World War II, some 120,000 Americans of Japanese...
The autobiograhical account of a second-generation Japanese American woman growing up in Seattle in the 1920s through the '40s, her family’s incarceration during World War II in Idaho, and her new life as a...
The autobiographical account, told through sketches and text, of a second-generation Japanese American woman, who was reduced to Citizen Number 13660 and incarcerated during World War II, first at the Tanforan Assembly Center in...
Jeanne Wakatsuki was just 7 years old when Pearl Harbor was bombed. Within months, her father was taken away by the U.S. government. Soon thereafter, the rest of the Wakatsuki family was...
Searching for Frank Chin
Last summer, I spent what seemed like an inordinate amount of time and effort searching for Frank Chin. Frank Chin, the controversial literary figure, the co-editor of the seminal Asian American texts, <a...
Michi Weglyn's first career, which she began at the age of 21, catapulted her to fame as the first nationally prominent Japanese American costume designer in the United States. By the 1950s,...