Karen Tei Yamashita

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Karen Tei Yamashita


Born
in Oakland, California, The United States
January 08, 1951

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Born January 8, 1951 in Oakland, California, Karen Tei Yamashita is a Japanese American writer and Associate Professor of Literature at University of California, Santa Cruz, where she teaches creative writing and Asian American literature. Her works, several of which contain elements of magic realism, include novels I Hotel (2010), Circle K Cycles (2001), Tropic of Orange (1997), Brazil-Maru (1992), and Through the Arc of the Rain Forest (1990). Tei Yamashita's novels emphasize the absolute necessity of polyglot, multicultural communities in an increasingly globalized age, even as they destabilize orthodox notions of borders and national/ethnic identity.

She has also written a number of plays, including Hannah Kusoh, Noh Bozos and O-Men whic
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Tropic of Orange

3.54 avg rating — 3,182 ratings — published 1997 — 16 editions
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Through the Arc of the Rain...

3.86 avg rating — 1,651 ratings — published 1990 — 22 editions
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I Hotel

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Sansei and Sensibility

3.48 avg rating — 362 ratings — published 2020 — 8 editions
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Letters to Memory

3.93 avg rating — 146 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions
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Brazil-Maru

3.66 avg rating — 149 ratings — published 1992 — 7 editions
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Circle K Cycles

3.82 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions
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1968: Eye Hotel: A Novella

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1974: I-Migrant: A Novella

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“Then you are a poet?' she asked, fingering the flyer in her pocket.
'No not at all,' he waved his hand. 'I am merely a character in a poem.”
Karen Tei Yamashita, Tropic of Orange

“Just cuz you get to the end doesn’t mean you know what happened.”
Karen Tei Yamashita, Tropic of Orange

“Everyone’s got a version of the same story, or maybe there’s no such thing as the same story; it’s a different story every time.”
Karen Tei Yamashita, I Hotel

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