{"id":5518,"date":"2005-09-08T08:27:33","date_gmt":"2005-09-08T12:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=5518"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:55:10","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:55:10","slug":"kannani-and-document-of-flames-two-japanese-colonial-novels-by-yuasa-katsuei-translated-with-an-introduction-and-critical-afterword-by-mark-driscoll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/kannani-and-document-of-flames-two-japanese-colonial-novels-by-yuasa-katsuei-translated-with-an-introduction-and-critical-afterword-by-mark-driscoll\/","title":{"rendered":"Kannani and Document of Flames: Two Japanese Colonial Novels by Yuasa Katsuei, translated with an introduction and critical afterword by Mark Driscoll [in AsianWeek]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2005\/09\/Kannani-and-Document-of-Flames.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-30733\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2005\/09\/Kannani-and-Document-of-Flames.jpg\" alt=\"Kannani and Document of Flames\" width=\"322\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a>The first available translation of important fiction highlighting the Japanese colonization of Korea: <em>Kannani<\/em> exposes the brutality endured by Koreans at the hands of their Japanese oppressors \u2013 even among the children \u2013 while <em>Document<\/em> follows the changing fortunes of a divorced Japanese woman in Korea who escapes prostitution to become an oppressive landowner. The most interesting tidbit in the book, however, has to do with the mention of Dr. Seuss\u2019s <em>Horton Hears a Who<\/em> being an allegory of the post-war relationship between the United States and Japan!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/08\/2009-09-08-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;New and Notable Books,&#8221; <em>AsianWeek<\/em>, September 8, 2005<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2005<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5520\" title=\"Kannani\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/08\/kannani.jpg\" alt=\"Kannani\" width=\"124\" height=\"193\" \/>The first available translation of important fiction highlighting the Japanese colonization of Korea: <em>Kannani<\/em> exposes the brutality endured by Koreans at the hands of their Japanese oppressors \u2013 even among the children \u2013 while <em>Document<\/em> follows the changing fortunes of a divorced Japanese woman in Korea who escapes prostitution to become an oppressive landowner. The most interesting tidbit in the book, however, has to do with the mention of Dr. Seuss\u2019s <em>Horton Hears a Who<\/em> being an allegory of the post-war relationship between the United States and Japan!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/08\/2009-09-08-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;New and Notable Books,&#8221; <em>AsianWeek<\/em>, September 8, 2005<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2005<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,76,37,6535,66],"tags":[3598,6608,22,341,3918,24,3919,3920,28,29,45,3921],"class_list":["post-5518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-fiction","category-japanese","category-korean","category-repost","category-translation","tag-asianweek","tag-bookdragon","tag-civil-rights","tag-colonialism","tag-document-of-flames","tag-historical","tag-kannani","tag-mark-driscoll","tag-politics","tag-race-racism","tag-war","tag-yuasa-katsuei"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kannani and Document of Flames: Two Japanese Colonial Novels by Yuasa Katsuei, translated with an introduction and critical afterword by Mark Driscoll [in AsianWeek] - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/kannani-and-document-of-flames-two-japanese-colonial-novels-by-yuasa-katsuei-translated-with-an-introduction-and-critical-afterword-by-mark-driscoll\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kannani and Document of Flames: Two Japanese Colonial Novels by Yuasa Katsuei, translated with an introduction and critical afterword by Mark Driscoll [in AsianWeek] - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The first available translation of important fiction highlighting the Japanese colonization of Korea: Kannani exposes the brutality endured by Koreans at the hands of their Japanese oppressors \u2013 even among the children \u2013 while Document follows the changing fortunes of a divorced Japanese woman in Korea who escapes prostitution to become an oppressive landowner. The most interesting tidbit in the book, however, has to do with the mention of Dr. Seuss\u2019s Horton Hears a Who being an allegory of the post-war relationship between the United States and Japan!  Review: &quot;New and Notable Books,&quot; AsianWeek, September 8, 2005  Readers: Adult  Published: 2005\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/kannani-and-document-of-flames-two-japanese-colonial-novels-by-yuasa-katsuei-translated-with-an-introduction-and-critical-afterword-by-mark-driscoll\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2005-09-08T12:27:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2015-08-17T14:55:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2005\/09\/Kannani-and-Document-of-Flames.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"322\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@SmithsonianAPA\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Kannani and Document of Flames: Two Japanese Colonial Novels by Yuasa Katsuei, translated with an introduction and critical afterword by Mark Driscoll [in AsianWeek] - BookDragon","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/kannani-and-document-of-flames-two-japanese-colonial-novels-by-yuasa-katsuei-translated-with-an-introduction-and-critical-afterword-by-mark-driscoll\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Kannani and Document of Flames: Two Japanese Colonial Novels by Yuasa Katsuei, translated with an introduction and critical afterword by Mark Driscoll [in AsianWeek] - BookDragon","og_description":"The first available translation of important fiction highlighting the Japanese colonization of Korea: Kannani exposes the brutality endured by Koreans at the hands of their Japanese oppressors \u2013 even among the children \u2013 while Document follows the changing fortunes of a divorced Japanese woman in Korea who escapes prostitution to become an oppressive landowner. The most interesting tidbit in the book, however, has to do with the mention of Dr. Seuss\u2019s Horton Hears a Who being an allegory of the post-war relationship between the United States and Japan!  Review: \"New and Notable Books,\" AsianWeek, September 8, 2005  Readers: Adult  Published: 2005","og_url":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/kannani-and-document-of-flames-two-japanese-colonial-novels-by-yuasa-katsuei-translated-with-an-introduction-and-critical-afterword-by-mark-driscoll\/","og_site_name":"BookDragon","article_published_time":"2005-09-08T12:27:33+00:00","article_modified_time":"2015-08-17T14:55:10+00:00","og_image":[{"width":322,"height":500,"url":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2005\/09\/Kannani-and-Document-of-Flames.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@SmithsonianAPA","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/kannani-and-document-of-flames-two-japanese-colonial-novels-by-yuasa-katsuei-translated-with-an-introduction-and-critical-afterword-by-mark-driscoll\/","url":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/kannani-and-document-of-flames-two-japanese-colonial-novels-by-yuasa-katsuei-translated-with-an-introduction-and-critical-afterword-by-mark-driscoll\/","name":"Kannani and Document of Flames: Two Japanese Colonial Novels by Yuasa Katsuei, translated with an introduction and critical afterword by Mark Driscoll [in AsianWeek] - BookDragon","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/#website"},"datePublished":"2005-09-08T12:27:33+00:00","dateModified":"2015-08-17T14:55:10+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/#\/schema\/person\/a00f6dcfcb279c75f3f992ad2919d51d"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/kannani-and-document-of-flames-two-japanese-colonial-novels-by-yuasa-katsuei-translated-with-an-introduction-and-critical-afterword-by-mark-driscoll\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/kannani-and-document-of-flames-two-japanese-colonial-novels-by-yuasa-katsuei-translated-with-an-introduction-and-critical-afterword-by-mark-driscoll\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/kannani-and-document-of-flames-two-japanese-colonial-novels-by-yuasa-katsuei-translated-with-an-introduction-and-critical-afterword-by-mark-driscoll\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Kannani and Document of Flames: Two Japanese Colonial Novels by Yuasa Katsuei, translated with an introduction and critical afterword by Mark Driscoll [in AsianWeek]"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/#website","url":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/","name":"BookDragon","description":"Books for the Diverse Reader","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/#\/schema\/person\/a00f6dcfcb279c75f3f992ad2919d51d","name":"Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/79b5f08575e8962bd00388cd126d374b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/79b5f08575e8962bd00388cd126d374b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/twitter.com\/@SmithsonianAPA"],"url":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/author\/riemert\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5518"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39361,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5518\/revisions\/39361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}