| Description |
x, 176 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-176). |
| Summary |
"Praise for Karen Tei Yamashita: "It's a stylistically wild ride, but it's smart, funny and entrancing." -NPR "Fluid and poetic as well as terrifying." -New York Times Book Review With delightful plays of voice and structure, this is literary fiction at an adventurous, experimental high point." -Kirkus "Magnificent. Intriguing." -Library Journal "This powerful, deeply felt, and impeccably researched fiction is irresistibly evocative." -Publishers Weekly (starred review) 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Evacuation and relocation of Japanese Americans (United States : 1942-1945) (OCoLC)fst01801850
|
|
Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 -- Fiction.
|
|
United States -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
|
|
Japanese Americans -- Fiction.
|
|
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural Heritage.
|
|
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
|
|
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies.
|
|
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
|
|
Japanese Americans. (OCoLC)fst00981441
|
|
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
|
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
|
| Genre/Form |
Biographical fiction.
|
|
Epistolary fiction.
|
|
Historical fiction.
|
|
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
|
|
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
|
|
Biographical fiction.
|
|
Epistolary fiction.
|
|
Historical fiction.
|
| ISBN |
9781566894876 (paperback) |
|
1566894875 (paperback) |
|
