Seventeen syllables and other stories
By: Hisaye Yamamoto ; with an introduction by King-Kok Cheung.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 134
Subjects: Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 -- Fiction.; Concentration camp inmates -- Fiction.; Concentration camps -- Fiction.; Japanese Americans -- Fiction.; United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories brings together fifteen stories that span Hisaye Yamamoto's forty-year career. It was her first book to be published in the United States. Yamamoto's themes include the cultural conflicts between the first generation, the Issei and their children, the Nisei; coping with prejudice; and the World War II internment of Japanese Americans.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [129]-134).