Sansei and Sensibility

Sansei and Sensibility - Paperback

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Sansei and Sensibility - Paperback

Sansei and Sensibility - Paperback

by Karen Tei Yamashita
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Book Overview

by Karen Tei Yamashita (Author)

Generations of Japanese Americans merge with Jane Austen's characters in these lively stories, pairing uniquely American histories with reimagined classics.

In these buoyant and inventive stories, Karen Tei Yamashita transfers classic tales across boundaries and questions what an inheritance-familial, cultural, emotional, artistic--really means. In a California of the sixties and seventies, characters examine the contents of deceased relatives' freezers, tape-record high school locker-room chatter, or collect a community's gossip while cleaning the teeth of its inhabitants. Mr. Darcy is the captain of the football team, Mansfield Park materializes in a suburb of L.A., bake sales replace ballroom dances, and station wagons, not horse-drawn carriages, are the preferred mode of transit. The stories of traversing class, race, and gender leap into our modern world with wit and humor.

Author Biography

Karen Tei Yamashita is the author of seven books, including I Hotel, finalist for the National Book Award, and most recently Letters to Memory, all published by Coffee House Press. Recipient of the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature and a US Artists Ford Foundation Fellowship, she is Professor Emerita of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Number of Pages: 224
Dimensions: 0.7 x 8.9 x 6 IN
Illustrated: Yes
Publication Date: May 05, 2020
ISBN9781566895781
Author Karen Tei Yamashita
PublisherCoffee House Press
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedMay 2020
LanguageENG- English
Pages224
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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