{"product_id":"songs-my-mother-taught-me-wakako-yamauchi-9781558610866","title":"Songs My Mother Taught Me: Stories, Plays, and Memoir","description":"\u003ci\u003eSongs My Mother Taught Me\u003c\/i\u003e is the first collection of literature by Wakako Yamauchi. In her eloquent prose, Yamauchi, a Nisei (second-generation Japanese American) illuminates the neglected social and emotional history of two generations of Japanese in the United States, recalling the harsh lives of rural immigrants, tenant farmers, and itinerant laborers. Informed by her own family history, her stories and plays recreate the wartime relocation of Japanese Americans and their postwar return to urban centers, capturing their ambivalent longings for the prewar family and culture of Japan. Years later, she recalls very young Mexican immigrants hired in as cheap labor in southern California who view a middle-aged Japanese woman as \"the American\", and ask her for advice--an irony almost too daunting for her to bear as she considers the past. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWithout bitterness, and often with quiet humor, Yamauchi's human-sized dramas open into larger social histories and the great narrative myths of culture. Like Toshio Mori and Hisaye Yamamoto, Yamauchi is a pioneer of Asian-American literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Wakako Yamauchi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1558610863\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781558610866\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Feminist Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/1994\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.96h x 6.01w x 0.79d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/15\/1994 pg. 70\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/13\/1994 pg. 60","brand":"Wakako Yamauchi","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43980092244223,"sku":"9781558610866","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_005ea141-5c53-4056-8414-efd7d8086e18.jpg?v=1683248344","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/songs-my-mother-taught-me-wakako-yamauchi-9781558610866","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}