Seventeen Syllables

by Cheung, King-Kok

• ISBN13: 9780813520537
• ISBN10: 0813520533
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-04-01
• Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr

Summary

Includes an authoritative text of the story, along with a chronology, critical essays, and a bibliography.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 3
Chronology	p. 17
Seventeen Syllables	p. 21
Yoneko's Earthquake	p. 41
Background to the Stories
Writing	p. 59
". . . I Still Carry It Around"	p. 69
Interview with Hisaye Yamamoto	p. 71
Critical Essays
The Short Stories of Hisaye Yamamoto, Japanese American Writer	p. 89
Hisaye Yamamoto: A Woman's View	p. 109
The Issei Father in the Fiction of Hisaye Yamamoto	p. 119
Relocation and Dislocation: The Writings of Hisaye Yamamoto and Wakako Yamauchi	p. 129
Legacies Revealed: Uncovering Buried Plots in the Stories of Hisaye Yamamoto	p. 143
Double-Telling: Intertextual Silence in Hisaye Yamamoto's Fiction	p. 161
Transplanted Discourse in Yamamoto's "Seventeen Syllables"	p. 181
"Seventeen Syllables": A Symbolic Haiku	p. 195
Adapting (to) the Margins: Hot Summer Winds and the Stories of Hisaye Yamamoto	p. 203
Selected Bibliography	p. 219
Permissions	p. 223
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