Research Catalog

Title

Letters to memory / Karen Tei Yamashita.

Author

Yamashita, Karen Tei, 1951-

Publication

• Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 2017.
• ©2017

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Details

Description

x, 176 pages : illustrations (some color); 23 cm

Summary

• "Praise for Karen Tei Yamashita: "It's a stylistically wild ride, but it's smart, funny and entrancing." -NPR "Fluid and poetic as well as terrifying." -New York Times Book Review With delightful plays of voice and structure, this is literary fiction at an adventurous, experimental high point." -Kirkus "Magnificent. Intriguing." -Library Journal "This powerful, deeply felt, and impeccably researched fiction is irresistibly evocative." -Publishers Weekly (starred review) Scintillations is an excursion through the Japanese internment using archival materials from the Yamashita family as well as a series of epistolary conversations with composite characters representing a range of academic specialties. Historians, anthropologists, classicists-their disciplines, and Yamashita's engagement with them, are a way for her explore various aspects of the internment and to expand its meaning beyond her family, and our borders, to ideas of debt, forgiveness, civil rights, Orientalism, and community"--
• Letters to Memory is an excursion through the Japanese internment using archival materials from the Yamashita family as well as a series of epistolary conversations with composite characters representing a range of academic specialties. Historians, anthropologists, classicists--their disciplines, and Yamashita's engagement with them, are a way for her to explore various aspects of the internment and to expand its meaning beyond her family, and our borders, to ideas of debt, forgiveness, civil rights, orientalism, and community-- Publisher's website.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Japanese Americans > Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 > Fiction
• Japanese Americans > Fiction
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural Heritage
• HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
• Japanese Americans
• United States > History > 20th century > Fiction
• United States

Genre/Form

• Biographical fiction
• Epistolary fiction
• Historical fiction
• Fiction
• History
• Historical fiction.
• Biographical fiction.
• Epistolary fiction.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-176).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

To begin -- Poverty -- Modernity -- Love -- Death -- Laughter -- To end.

ISBN

• 9781566894876
• 1566894875

LCCN

^^2017012423

OCLC

• 971513859
• SCSB-12203024

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library