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Resilient Imaginations: No-No Boy, Obasan and the Limits of Minority Discourse, in Mosaic (Winnipeg) » Read Now
by Apollo O. Amoko. 21 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...as the fiction of Joy Kogawa and John Okada to trace the license and limits of...No-No Boy by Japanese American writer John Okada. Written in two distinct...
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Asian American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook ("John Okada" begins on p. 281) » Read Now
by Emmanuel S. Nelson. 424 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

As a distinct area of literary study, Asian American literature now enjoys a level of critical recognition that was unimaginable when academic interest in the field began modestly some 25 years ago. Part of this recognition stems from the increasing contributions of Asian American novelists, whose...
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As a distinct area of literary study, Asian American literature now enjoys a level of critical recognition that was unimaginable when academic interest in the field began modestly some 25 years ago. Part of this recognition stems from the increasing contributions of Asian American novelists, whose works continue to capture growing levels of popular attention. This reference book provides alphabetically arranged entries for 70 Asian American novelists. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and provides a short biography, a discussion of major works and themes, an overview of the novelist's critical reception, and a bibliography of primary and secondary sources. In addition, the volume concludes with a selected, general bibliography.
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Asian-American Writers ("After Imprisonment: Ichiro's Search for Redemption in No-No Boy begins on p. 5) » Read Now
by Harold Bloom. 234 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

-- Brings together the best criticism on the most widely read poets, novelists, and playwrights
-- Presents complex critical portraits of the most influential writers in the English-speaking world -- from the English medievalists to contemporary writers
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The Mother That Won't Reflect Back: Situating Psychoanalysis and the Japanese Mother in No-No Boy, in MELUS » Read Now
by Bryn Gribben. 17 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...traffic with its handful of riders.--John Okada, No-No Boy John Okadas post-World-War-II...sought and found its erratic release" (Okada 185). When Ichiro accepts...
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Assimilating Asians: Gendered Strategies of Authorship in Asian America (Chap. 1 "America in the Heart: Political Desire in Younghill Kang, Carlos Bulosan, Milton Murayama, and John Okada") » Read Now
by Patricia P. Chu. 244 pgs.

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One of the central tasks of Asian American literature, argues Patricia P. Chu, has been to construct Asian American identities in the face of existing, and often contradictory, ideas about what it means to be an American. Chu examines the model of the Anglo-American bildungsroman and shows how Asian...
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One of the central tasks of Asian American literature, argues Patricia P. Chu, has been to construct Asian American identities in the face of existing, and often contradictory, ideas about what it means to be an American. Chu examines the model of the Anglo-American bildungsroman and shows how Asian American writers have adapted it to express their troubled and unstable position in the United States. By aligning themselves with U.S. democratic ideals while also questioning the historical realities of exclusion, internment, and discrimination, Asian American authors, contends Chu, do two kinds of ideological work: they claim Americanness for Asian Americans, and they create accounts of Asian ethnicity that deploy their specific cultures and histories to challenge established notions of Americanness.
Chu further demonstrates that Asian American male and female writers engage different strategies in the struggle to adapt, reflecting their particular, gender-based relationships to immigration, work, and cultural representation. While offering fresh perspectives on the well-known writings -- both fiction and memoir -- of Maxine Hong Kingston, Amy Tan, Bharati Mukherjee, Frank Chin, and David Mura, Assimilating Asians also provides new insight into the work of less recognized but nevertheless important writers like Carlos Bulosan, Edith Eaton, Younghill Kang, Milton Murayama, and John Okada. As she explores this expansive range of texts -- published over the course of the last century by authors of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, and Indian origin or descent -- Chu is able to illuminate her argument by linking it to key historical and cultural events.
Assimilating Asians makes animportant contribution to the fields of Asian American, American, and women's studies. Scholars of Asian American literature and culture, as well as of ethnicity and assimilation, will find particular interest and value in this
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Mapping Carnivalistic Discourse in Japanese-American Writing, in MELUS » Read Now
by Benzi Zhang. 22 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Dostoevskys Poetics 122 and 107). John Okadas No-No Boy, a novel...Asian-America" (vi). For Okada, neither "Japanese" or...Lawson Fusao. "Introduction." John Okada, No-No...
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Asian American Literature, an Introduction to the Writings and Their Social Context (Discussion of John Okada begins on p. 148) » Read Now
by Elaine H. Kim. 361 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Nakasako, Alvin Planas, Sun-hae Song, and John Takakuwa for their technical assistance...manners. The bitterness and rage felt by John Okadas protagonist towards his...
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Aiieeeee! an Introduction to Asian-American Writing, in Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars » Read Now
by Frank Chin, Lawson Fusao Inada, Shawn Hsu Wong. 15 pgs.

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...writers Toshio Mori ( 1949 ), John Okada ( 1957 ), Mine Okubo ( 1946...unfortunately, the last novel by John Okada. At the time of his death in 1971...and the publishing...
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Dictionary of Asian American History ("Okada, John" begins on p. 433) » Read Now
by Hyung-Chan Kim. 629 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

"An informative and well-crafted volume with nearly 800 entries that review the key facts of Asian American and Pacific American history....This work, the first in its field, will be an essential reference for academic and public libraries." Choice