The Magic Realist Unconscious: Twain, Yamashita and Jackson by Takayuki Tatsumi

“…A Close reading of this metafiction composed in a way reminiscent of Jorge Luis Borges, Stanislaw Lem and Bruce Sterling will enable us to rediscover not only the role conjoined twins played in cultural history, but also the reason why Yamashita had to feature them once again in her novel <i>I Hotel</i> (2010) whose plot centers around the Asian American civil rights movement between the 1960s and the 1970s. …”
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