No-no boy
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Published
Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2014.
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xxvii, 232 pages ; 22 cm.
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Plaistow Public Library
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Published
Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2014.
Language
English
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No-No Boy tells the story of Ichiro Yamada, a fictional version of the real-life "no-no boys." Yamada answered "no" twice in a compulsory government questionnaire as to whether he would serve in the armed forces and swear loyalty to the United States. Unwilling to pledge himself to the country that interned him and his family, Ichiro earns two years in prison and the hostility of his family and community when he returns home to Seattle. As Ozeki writes, Ichiro's "obsessive, tormented" voice subverts Japanese postwar "model-minority" stereotypes, showing a fractured community and one man's "threnody of guilt, rage, and blame as he tries to negotiate his reentry into a shattered world." First published in 1957, No-No Boy was virtually ignored by a public eager to put World War II and the Japanese internment behind them. It was not until the mid-1970s that a new generation of Japanese American writers and scholars recognized the novel's importance and popularized it as one of literature's most powerful testaments to the Asian American experience.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Okada, J. (2014). No-no boy . University of Washington Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Okada, John, 1923-1971. 2014. No-no Boy. University of Washington Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Okada, John, 1923-1971. No-no Boy University of Washington Press, 2014.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Okada, John. No-no Boy University of Washington Press, 2014.
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