Picture Bride: A Novel by Yoshiko Uchida (Classics of Asian American Literature) - Softcover

Uchida, Yoshiko

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0295976160 ISBN 13: 9780295976167

Verlag: University of Washington Press, 1997

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Book by Uchida Yoshiko

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With insight, pathos, and deep understanding, the author, in her graceful, dignified way, dares to expose Hana as a long-suffering, independent, assertive woman who is frustrated and stifled as she struggles to adjust to a hostile culture that is blind to her sense of values. * Western American Literature * A moving tribute. . . . A rare insight into the hearts and minds of Japanese immigrant women and the important role they played in the establishment and survival of ethnic family and community life in America. -- Judy Yung * San Francisco Chronicle *

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Carrying a photograph of the man she is to marry but has yet to meet, young Hana Omiya arrives in San Francisco, California, in 1917, one of several hundred Japanese "picture brides" whose arranged marriages brought them to America in the early 1900s. Her story is intertwined with others: her husband, Taro Takeda, an Oakland shopkeeper; Kiku and her husband Henry, who reject demeaning city work to become farmers; Dr. Kaneda, a respected community leader who is destroyed by the adopted land he loves. All are caught up in the cruel turmoil of World War II, when West Coast Japanese Americans are uprooted from their homes and imprisoned in desert detention camps. Although tragedy strikes each of them, the same strength that brought her to America enable Hana to survive.

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• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0295976160
• ISBN 13: 9780295976167
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 222