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Letters to Memory
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Letters to Memory
This dive into the Yamashita family archive and Japanese internment runs a documentary impulse through filters that shimmer with imagination.
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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 to 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 is the author of Through the Arc of the Rain Forest, Brazil-Maru, Tropic of Orange, Circle K Cycles, I Hotel, and Anime Wong, all published by Coffee House Press. 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.
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Karen Tei Yamashita's Letters to Memory is praised for blending a personal touch with a deep historical exploration, making the narrative both compelling and reflective on serious themes. The book delves into dark periods of American history, resonating with audiences concerned about targeted communities. It raises profound questions about evil, justice, war, and forgiveness while acknowledging the complex legacies of historical atrocities. The work is recommended not just for history enthusiasts but for those seeking insights into human nature.
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ISBN: 9781566894876
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 28 September 2017
Country: United States
Imprint: Coffee House Press
Illustration: Color photos throughout
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 152.0mm
Height: 228.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 160
About the Author
Karen Tei Yamashita: Karen Tei Yamashita is the author of Through the Arc of the Rain Forest, Brazil-Maru, Tropic of Orange, Circle K Cycles, I Hotel, and Anime Wong, all published by Coffee House Press. 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. She has been a US Artists Ford Foundation Fellow and co-holder of the University of California Presidential Chair for Feminist & Critical Race & Ethnic Studies. She is currently Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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