description: Hisaye Yamamoto's often-reprinted tale of a naive American daughter and her Japanese mother captures the essence of the cultural and generational conflicts so common among immigrants and their American-born children.This casebook includes an introduction and an essay by the editor, an interview with the author, a chronology, authoritative texts of "Seventeen Syllables" (1949) and "Yoneko's Earthquake" (1951), critical essays, and a bibliography.
language: English
title: 'Seventeen Syllables'
titlecomplete: 'Seventeen Syllables' (Women Writers: Texts and Contexts)
genres: Fiction, School, Short Stories
ratings_count: 74
publisher: Rutgers University Press