Letters To Memory
by Karen Tei Yamashita /
2017 / English / PDF
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Praise for Karen Tei Yamashita:
Praise for Karen Tei Yamashita:
"It's a stylistically wild ride, but it's smart, funny and
entrancing." ―
"It's a stylistically wild ride, but it's smart, funny and
entrancing." ―NPR
NPR
"Fluid and poetic as well as terrifying." ―
"Fluid and poetic as well as terrifying." ―New York Times
Book Review
New York Times
Book Review
With delightful plays of voice and structure, this is literary
fiction at an adventurous, experimental high point."
―
With delightful plays of voice and structure, this is literary
fiction at an adventurous, experimental high point."
―Kirkus
Kirkus
"Magnificent. . . . Intriguing." ―
"Magnificent. . . . Intriguing." ―Library Journal
Library Journal
"This powerful, deeply felt, and impeccably researched fiction
is irresistibly evocative." ―
"This powerful, deeply felt, and impeccably researched fiction
is irresistibly evocative." ―Publishers Weekly
Publishers Weekly (starred
review)
(starred
review)Scintillations
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.
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.Karen Tei Yamashita
Karen Tei Yamashita is the author of
is the author ofThrough the Arc
of the Rain Forest
Through the Arc
of the Rain Forest,
,Brazil-Maru, Tropic of Orange,
Circle K Cycles, I Hotel
Brazil-Maru, Tropic of Orange,
Circle K Cycles, I Hotel, and
, andAnime Wong
Anime Wong, all
published by Coffee House Press.
, all
published by Coffee House Press.I Hotel
I Hotel was selected as
a finalist for the National Book Award and awarded the
California Book Award, the American Book Award, the
Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association Award, and the
Association for Asian American Studies Book Award.
was selected as
a finalist for the National Book Award and awarded the
California Book Award, the American Book Award, the
Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association Award, and the
Association for Asian American Studies Book Award.
