初期日系アメリカ文学に関する考察

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Today Japanese American Literature is recognized as one of several ethnic literatures included in American Literature as well as African American Literature, Native American Literature and so on. No-No- Boy, the novel by John Okada, Nisei (second generation) writer is one of the canonical books read in Asian American Studies, and some books by Cynthia Kadohata, Sansei (third generation) novelist are highly popular among the masses and awarded a literary prize. In the early age of Japanese American Literature, however, the writings of Japanese people in the US were diverse and inconsistent. Some were written by the immigrants, and others by the sojourners. Some were composed in English, and others in Japanese. Some described the life of Japanese immigrants, and others gave an account of Japanese culture and art. In this paper I will try to disentangle the complicated situation of the writings in the early age of Japanese American Literature.
2011-02-15