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Milton Murayama All I'm Asking for is My Body (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)
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- Book Title
- All I Asking for Is My Body
- Publication Name
- All I'm Asking for is My Body
- Title
- All I'm Asking for is My Body
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- EAN
- 9780824811723
- ISBN
- 9780824811723
- Publisher
- University of Hawaii Press
- Genre
- History, Fiction
- Release Date
- 30/05/1988
- Release Year
- 1988
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Weight
- 6.4 Oz
- Item Length
- 8.9in
- Publication Year
- 1988
- Item Height
- 0.3in
- Features
- Reprint
- Topic
- General, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), Asian American
- Item Width
- 5.9in
- Number of Pages
- 120 Pages
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From the Afterword by Franklin S. Odo: The most important feature of Milton Murayama's brilliant All I Asking for Is My Body is the quality of the storytelling. It deserves thorough discussion and criticism among literary professionals and students. The work has a further genius, however, in its evocation of several major topics in modern Hawaiian history, specifically during the 1930s, the decade before United States involvement in World War II. I suggest that Murayama's novel provides us with valuable insights into the worlds of language, sugar plantation history, and the second-generation Japanese Americans, the nisei. . . . Critic Rob Wilson noted: "Part of the accomplishment of the novel is that the language ranges from the vernacular to the literate and standard, and so reflects the cultural and linguistic diversity of Hawaii." In the novel, Murayama uses standard English and pidgin. In real life, the narrator Kiyo explains, "we spoke four languages: good English in school, pidgin English among ourselves, good or pidgin Japanese to our parents and the other old folks." The wonder is that Murayama emerged using any one of the languages well. For most, that experience proved to be an insuperable barrier to good creative writing. . . . All I Asking for Is My Body is the most compelling work done on the Hawaii nisei experience. Murayama understood his theme to be "the Japanese family system vs. individualism, the plantation system vs. individualism. And so the environments of the family and the plantation are inseparable from the theme." Fortunately for us as readers, however, he understood that the story was the key ingredient; that anything less would simply add to the sociological study of the plantation and the Japanese family in Hawaii.
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University of Hawaii Press
ISBN-10
0824811720
ISBN-13
9780824811723
eBay Product ID (ePID)
682046
Product Key Features
Book Title
All I Asking for Is My Body
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Features
Reprint
Topic
General, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), Asian American
Publication Year
1988
Genre
History, Fiction
Number of Pages
120 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.9in
Item Height
0.3in
Item Width
5.9in
Item Weight
6.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3563.U723a79 1988
Edition Description
Reprint
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An excellent novel about prewar Japanese-American plantation life [in Hawaii]. . . . Murayama has turned his own past into art and recreated the experience of prewar years on plantations. . . . A human document that is subtle, funny, and completely memorable., His adroit use of Pidgin makes the book dialectically authentic while still being comprehensible to readers of standard English only.
Copyright Date
1988
Lccn
88-006967
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
19
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