Yokohama, California Toshio Mori.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mori, Toshio, 1910-1980, author.

Series:

Classics of Asian American literature.

Classics of Asian American literature

Standardized Title:

Short stories. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japanese Americans--Fiction.

Japanese Americans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (177 p.)

Edition:

New edition / introduction by Xiaojing Zhou.

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Yokohama, California, originally released in 1949, is the first published collection of short stories by a Japanese American. Set in a fictional community, these linked stories are alive with the people, gossip, humor, and legends of Japanese America in the 1930s and 1940s.Replaces ISBN 9780295961675

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Introduction to the 2015 Edition; Standing on Seventh Street: An Introduction to the 1985 Edition; Introduction to the Original Edition; Tomorrow Is Coming, Children; The Woman Who Makes Swell Doughnuts; The Seventh Street Philosopher; My Mother Stands on Her Head; Toshio Mori; The End of the Line; Say It with Flowers; Akira Yano; Lil' Yokohama; The Finance over at Doi's; Three Japanese Mothers; The All-American Girl; The Chessmen; Nodas in America; The Eggs of the World; He Who Has the Laughing Face; Slant-Eyed Americans; The Trees; The Six Rows of Pompons

Business at ElevenThe Brothers; Tomorrow and Today

Notes:

Previous edition: Caldwell, Idaho: Caxton, 1949.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780295806426

0295806427

OCLC:

1273306481