When first produced in 1972 and 1974, these two plays created an enormous stir. Some critics condemned the playwright, others praised him. In susequent years his work has had a profound impact on a generation of young Asian American writers. With the publication of this volume, the plays can now be read and debated and enjoyed by a larger audience.
When first produced in 1972 and 1974, these two plays created an enormous stir. Some critics condemned the playwright, others praised him. In suseq...
This oral history presents the Japanese American saga as told by those who lived through it. Frank Chin details the lives of first- and second-generation Japanese Americans before World War II with a kaleidoscope of images drawn from interviews, popular songs, novels and newspaper articles. The heart of his story is the tragedy that followed the bombing of Pearl Harbor, when Japanese American citizens lost their homes and property and were forced into internment camps. The author weaves interviews and testimony from the Japanese American Citizen's League (JACL) with opposing, in-depth...
This oral history presents the Japanese American saga as told by those who lived through it. Frank Chin details the lives of first- and second-generat...
-The 11-year-old hero of Mr. Chin's inventive, energetic first novel is educated in his Chinese heritage through a series of astonishing dreams about working on the Central Pacific Railroad in 1869.---New York Times Book Review -Doubt not the ability of the gifted, passionate, funny Mr. Chin.---New Yorker
-The 11-year-old hero of Mr. Chin's inventive, energetic first novel is educated in his Chinese heritage through a series of astonishing dreams about ...
"No-No Boy has the honor of being the very first Japanese American novel," writes novelist Ruth Ozeki in her new foreword to John Okada's classic of Asian American literature. First published in 1956, No-No Boy was virtually ignored by a public eager to put World War II and the Japanese internment behind them. It was not until the mid-1970s that a new generation of Japanese American writers and scholars recognized the novel's importance and popularized it as one of literature's most powerful testaments to the Asian American experience.
No-No Boy tells the story...
"No-No Boy has the honor of being the very first Japanese American novel," writes novelist Ruth Ozeki in her new foreword to John Okada's cl...
