Karen Tei Yamashita: Fictions of Magic and Memory 9780824874056
Karen Tei Yamashita’s novels, essays, and performance scripts have garnered considerable praise from scholars and review
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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: Karen Tei Yamashita and the Cultivation of Cosmopolitan Virtue
Chapter Two: Narratives of Dislocation in the Novels of Karen Tei Yamashita, Joy Kogawa, and Julie Otsuka
Chapter Three: “Dancing with Goblins in Plastic Jungles”: History, Nikkei Transnationalism, and Romantic Environmentalism in Through the Arc of the Rain Forest
Chapter Four: Did You Hear the One About . . . ? Humor in Through the Arc of the Rain Forest and Brazil-Maru
Chapter Five: Environment, Justice, Aesthetics: Through the Arc of the Rain Forest and My Year of Meats
Chapter Six: An Incomplete Journey: Settlement and Power in Brazil-Maru
Chapter Seven: Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange and Chaos Theory: Angels and a Motley Crew
Chapter Eight: (Re)Production Cycles: Labor and Identity in Circle K Cycles
Chapter Nine: House of Memory: Imagining Karen Tei Yamashita’s I Hotel
Chapter Ten: Shift of Scene: Re-viewing Anime Wong
Chapter Eleven: Reimagining Traveling Bodies: Bridging the Future/Past
Chapter Twelve: Speaking Craft: An Interview with Karen Tei Yamashita
Bibliography of Karen Tei Yamashita’s Works
Contributors
Index
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: Karen Tei Yamashita and the Cultivation of Cosmopolitan Virtue
Chapter Two: Narratives of Dislocation in the Novels of Karen Tei Yamashita, Joy Kogawa, and Julie Otsuka
Chapter Three: “Dancing with Goblins in Plastic Jungles”: History, Nikkei Transnationalism, and Romantic Environmentalism in Through the Arc of the Rain Forest
Chapter Four: Did You Hear the One About . . . ? Humor in Through the Arc of the Rain Forest and Brazil-Maru
Chapter Five: Environment, Justice, Aesthetics: Through the Arc of the Rain Forest and My Year of Meats
Chapter Six: An Incomplete Journey: Settlement and Power in Brazil-Maru
Chapter Seven: Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange and Chaos Theory: Angels and a Motley Crew
Chapter Eight: (Re)Production Cycles: Labor and Identity in Circle K Cycles
Chapter Nine: House of Memory: Imagining Karen Tei Yamashita’s I Hotel
Chapter Ten: Shift of Scene: Re-viewing Anime Wong
Chapter Eleven: Reimagining Traveling Bodies: Bridging the Future/Past
Chapter Twelve: Speaking Craft: An Interview with Karen Tei Yamashita
Bibliography of Karen Tei Yamashita’s Works
Contributors
Index
