No-No Boy A Novel - Okada, John (1977) Paperback

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Item specifics

Condition
Very Good: A book that has been read and does not look new, but is in excellent condition. No ...
Country of Origin
United States
Binding
Paperback
Product Group
Book
Publication Year
1978
Type
Novel
Narrative Type
Fiction
Weight
0 lbs
IsTextBook
No
ISBN
9780295955254
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
University of Washington Press
ISBN-10
0295955252
ISBN-13
9780295955254
eBay Product ID (ePID)
120889

Product Key Features

Book Title
No-No Boy
Number of Pages
264 Pages
Language
English
Topic
War & Military, Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies, United States / State & Local / Pacific Northwest (Or, Wa), Political, Asian American, Historical
Features
Reprint
Genre
Fiction, Social Science, History
Author
John Okada
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
11.2 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
79-055834
Reviews
Asian American readers will appreciate the sensitivity and integrity with which the late John Okada wrote about his own group. He heralded the beginning of an authentic Japanese American literature.
Dewey Edition
23
Afterword by
Chin, Frank
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Edition Description
Reprint
Table Of Content
Foreword / Ruth OzekiIntroduction / Lawrence Fusao InadaPreface No-No Boy Afterword: In Search of John Okada / Frank Chin
Synopsis
No-No Boy has the honor of being among the first of what has become an entire literary canon of Asian American literature,? writes novelist Ruth Ozeki in her new foreword. First published in 1957, 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 of Ichiro Yamada, a fictional version of the real-life ?no-no boys.' Yamada answered ?no? twice in a compulsory government questionnaire as to whether he would serve in the armed forces and swear loyalty to the United States. Unwilling to pledge himself to the country that interned him and his family, Ichiro earns two years in prison and the hostility of his family and community when he returns home to Seattle. As Ozeki writes, Ichiro's ?obsessive, tormented? voice subverts Japanese postwar ?model-minority? stereotypes, showing a fractured community and one man's ?threnody of guilt, rage, and blame as he tries to negotiate his reentry into a shattered world.' The first edition of No-No Boy since 1979 presents this important work to new generations of readers.|9780295955254|, " No-No Boy has the honor of being among the first of what has become an entire literary canon of Asian American literature," writes novelist Ruth Ozeki in her new foreword. First published in 1957, 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 of Ichiro Yamada, a fictional version of the real-life "no-no boys." Yamada answered "no" twice in a compulsory government questionnaire as to whether he would serve in the armed forces and swear loyalty to the United States. Unwilling to pledge himself to the country that interned him and his family, Ichiro earns two years in prison and the hostility of his family and community when he returns home to Seattle. As Ozeki writes, Ichiro's "obsessive, tormented" voice subverts Japanese postwar "model-minority" stereotypes, showing a fractured community and one man's "threnody of guilt, rage, and blame as he tries to negotiate his reentry into a shattered world." The first edition of No-No Boy since 1979 presents this important work to new generations of readers.
LC Classification Number
PS3565.K33 N6 1981

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