“Watching the world about them rock and sway”. Hidden Upheavals in Hisaye Yamamoto’s Short Stories
The essay focuses on a re-reading of two of the most celebrated short stories written by Japanese American author Hisaye Yamamoto, “Seventeen Syllables” (1949) and “Yoneko’s Earthquake” (1951). While both short stories are characterized by a sustained use of indirection, by tracing in them allusions...
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| Language: | English |
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UNICApress
2021-10-01
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| Series: | América Crítica |
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| Online Access: | https://ojs.unica.it/index.php/cisap/article/view/4546 |