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'Seventeen Syllables': Hisaye Yamamoto

'Seventeen Syllables': Hisaye Yamamoto

Cheung, King-Kok

Paperback

Series: Women Writers: Texts and Contexts

General Fiction

ISBN10: 0813520533
ISBN13: 9780813520537
Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr
Published: Mar 1 1994
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.62 Width: 6.05 Depth: 9.01
Language: English
Hisaye Yamamoto's often reprinted tale of a naive American daughter and her Japanese mother captures the essence the cultural and generational conflicts so common among immigrants and their American-born children. On the surface, Seventeen Syllables is the story of Rosie and her preoccupation with adolescent life. Between the lines, however, lurks the tragedy of her mother, who is trapped in a marriage of desperation. Tome's deep absorption in writing haiku causes a rift with her husband, which escalates to a tragic event that changes Rosie's life forever.

Yamamoto's disarming style matches the verbal economy of haiku, in which all meaning is contained within seventeen syllables. Her deft characterizations and her delineations of sexuality create a haunting story of a young girl's transformation from innocence to adulthood.

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. The contributors are Charles L. Crow, Donald C. Goellnicht, Elaine H. Kim, Dorothy Ritsuko McDonald, Zenobia Baxter Mistri, Katharine Newman, Robert M. Payne, Robert T. Rolf, and Stan Yogi.

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