No-no Boy

Okada, John/ Ozeki, Ruth (Foreward By)/ Inada, Lawson Fusao (Introduction by)/ Chin, Frank (Afterword)

ISBN 10: 0295994045 / ISBN 13: 9780295994048

Published by Univ of Washington Pr, 2014

reprint edition. 232 pages. 8.75x5.50x0.75 inches. In Stock. Seller Inventory # xi0295994045

Synopsis:

"No-No Boy has the honor of being among the first of what has become an entire literary canon of Asian American literature,” writes novelist Ruth Ozeki in her new foreword. 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.

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.”

The first edition of No-No Boy since 1979 presents this important work to new generations of readers.

About the Authors: Lawson Fusao Inada has published several books of poetry, including Legends from Camp (1994), which won an American Book Award. He was also named Oregon's fifth poet Laureate in 2006.

Frank Chin is the author of the plays The Chickencoop Chinaman (1971) and The Year of the Dragon (1974), the novels Donald Duk (1991), Gunga Din Highway (1994), and The Confessions of a Number One Son (2015), and several other books of fiction and nonfiction.

Bibliographic Details

Title: No-no Boy
Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr
Publication Date: 2014
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Brand New