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Circle K Cycles

by Karen Tei Yamashita

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Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

"Yamashita is so tuned into now, she can see tomorrow."-Bookliston Tropic of Orange, starred review

"Through the Arc of the Rainforestprogresses toward an apocalyptic resolution that spreads out like a Bosch triptych reproduced by Gauguin. In this, her first novel, Ms. Yamashita presents a critique of human waste and stupidity that is fluid and poetic as well as terrifying."-The New York Times Book Review

Yamashita's innovative melding of fiction and essay explores issues such as labor, nationalism, and cultural diaspora. When the grandchildren of Japanese immigrants to Brazil move to Japan to assume the manual work native Japanese people no longer want, their need for cultural belonging, their homesickness for details of their birthplace, clash with the status quo. This book of hybrids-merging collage with text, story with history-opens a door onto one of the important issues of the new century.

Yamashita has a powerful story to tell about a community that is globally extensive and the freedom-physical and emotional-implied by that new geography.

Karen Tei Yamashitais a winner of the American Book Award and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Award. She is an assistant professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of California in Santa Cruz.

Synopsis:

When second generation Japanese-Brazilians move to Japan for economic opportunity, their homesickness for cultural identity is exacerbated by Japanese society's reverence for "pure Japanese". Yamashita's stunning book of hybrids merges fiction, essay, and collage to illustrate a global society that resists heritage-by-hyphenation.

Product Details

ISBN:
9781566891080
Author:
Yamashita, Karen Tei
Publisher:
Coffee House Press
Location:
Minneapolis, MN
Subject:
General
Subject:
Japanese
Subject:
Japan
Subject:
Immigrants
Subject:
Psychological fiction
Subject:
Ethnicity
Subject:
Brazilians
Subject:
General Fiction
Series Volume:
105-37
Publication Date:
April 2001
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
147
Dimensions:
675x909x48 59

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