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Sansei and sensibility, stories, Karen Tei Yamashita

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Sansei and sensibility, stories, Karen Tei Yamashita
Language
eng
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Literary text for sound recordings
fiction
Main title
Sansei and sensibility
Responsibility statement
Karen Tei Yamashita
Sub title
stories
Summary
In these buoyant and inventive stories, Karen Tei Yamashita transfers classic tales across boundaries and questions what an inheritance-familial, cultural, emotional, artistic-really means. In a California of the sixties and seventies, characters examine the contents of deceased relatives' freezers, tape-record high school locker-room chatter, or collect a community's gossip while cleaning the teeth of its inhabitants. Mr. Darcy is the captain of the football team, Mansfield Park materializes in a suburb of LA, bake sales replace ballroom dances, and station wagons, not horse-drawn carriages, are the preferred mode of transit. The stories of traversing class, race, and gender leap into our modern world with humor
Target audience
adult
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