Seventeen Syllables Book Description: 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. Seventeen Syllables Book Description: 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. · Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories by Hisaye Yamamoto [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature] A collection of 15 short stories from Yamamoto’s almost half-century-long writing career. Although the stories cover diverse subject matter, some of Yamamoto’s recurring themes including multicultural and multiethnic interaction, multigenerational conflicts and difficulties that first .
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. 『リトル・トーキョーでの一日』"A Day in Little Tokyo"『ヒサエ・ヤマモト作品集 －「十七文字」ほか十八編－』"Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories." by Hisaye Yamamoto. Introduction by King-Kok Cheung. Revised and expanded ed. 読了. Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories by Hisaye Yamamoto. New York: Kitchen Table, xi-xxv, ed. "Seventeen Syllables." New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, Crow, Charles L. "The Issei Father in the Fiction of Hisaye Yamamoto." Opening Up Literary Criticism: Essays on American Prose and Poetry, edited by Leo Truchlar,
Seventeen Syllables Book Description: 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. Seventeen Syllables Book Description: 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. 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.
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