{"id":7639,"date":"1997-03-02T21:30:31","date_gmt":"1997-03-03T01:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=7639"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:34:01","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:34:01","slug":"all-i-asking-for-is-my-body-by-milton-murayama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/all-i-asking-for-is-my-body-by-milton-murayama\/","title":{"rendered":"All I Asking for Is My Body by Milton Murayama [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/1997\/03\/All-I-Asking-for-Is-My-Body.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-33050\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/1997\/03\/All-I-Asking-for-Is-My-Body.jpg\" alt=\"All I Asking for Is My Body\" width=\"335\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a>An often comic, yet poignant work about the coming-of-age of young Kiyoshi, living in the Japanese plantation camps of Hawai&#8217;i during the 1930s and &#8217;40s. While he is expected to be a filial son and help pay off a $6,000 family debt, Kiyoshi cannot help admire his older, outspoken, less dutiful brother.<\/p>\n<p>The title comes from first son Toshio\u2019s constant complaint: &#8220;All I asking for is my body&#8221; \u2013\u00a0all I ask is that I am finally freed from my impossible filial duties to live my own life. In addition to the book\u2019s important historical context (Hawaiian plantation life, Pearl Harbor, etc.), it also focuses on the importance of language among second-generation Asian immigrants living in Hawai&#8217;i. As Kiyoshi remarks, American-born children in Hawai&#8217;i interchangeably spoke four languages: &#8220;good English in school, pidgin English [the native Hawaiian pidgin] among themselves, good or pidgin Japanese to our parents and the other old folks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/what-do-i-read-next.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;Asian American Titles,&#8221; <em>What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature<\/em>, Gale Research, 1997<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Young Adult, Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 1959<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6836\" title=\"All I Asking For Is My Body\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/09\/all-i-asking-for-is-my-body.jpg\" alt=\"All I Asking For Is My Body\" width=\"128\" height=\"192\" \/>An often comic, yet poignant work about the coming-of-age of young Kiyoshi, living in the Japanese plantation camps of Hawai&#8217;i during the 1930s and &#8217;40s. While he is expected to be a filial son and help pay off a $6,000 family debt, Kiyoshi cannot help admire his older, outspoken, less dutiful brother.<\/p>\n<p>The title comes from first son Toshio\u2019s constant complaint: &#8220;All I asking for is my body&#8221; \u2013 all I ask is that I am finally freed from my impossible filial duties to live my own life. In addition to the book\u2019s important historical context (Hawaiian plantation life, Pearl Harbor, etc.), it also focuses on the importance of language among second-generation Asian immigrants living in Hawai&#8217;i. As Kiyoshi remarks, American-born children in Hawai&#8217;i interchangeably spoke four languages: &#8220;good English in school, pidgin English [the native Hawaiian pidgin] among themselves, good or pidgin Japanese to our parents and the other old folks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/09\/what-do-i-read-next.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Asian American Titles,&#8221; <em>What Do I Read Next? 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