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Art, Literature, and the Japanese American Internment

On John Okada’s No-No Boy

Produktform: Buch / Einband - fest (Hardcover)

How can art, how can prose and poetry originate in spite of the restraints of manipulation, propaganda, and censorship? This study explores such issues by focusing on the cultural trajectory of Japanese American internment, both during and after World War II. Previously unknown documents as well as interviews with friends and family reveal new aspects of John Okada’s (1923–1971) life and writing, providing a comprehensive biographical outline of the author. The book refutes the assumption that Okada’s novel was all but shunned when first published in 1957. A close reading as well as a comparative study involving Italo Calvino’s (1923–1985) (1985) position Okada’s only book as world literature.weiterlesen

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Sprache(n): Englisch

ISBN: 978-3-631-65937-3 / 978-3631659373 / 9783631659373

Verlag: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften

Erscheinungsdatum: 22.04.2015

Seiten: 261

Auflage: 1

Autor(en): Thomas Girst
Reihe herausgegeben von Bettina Friedl

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