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Hisaye Yamamoto ( Japanese: 山本 久枝, [1] August 23, 1921 – January 30, 2011) was an American author known for the short story collection Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories, first published in 1988. Her work confronts issues of the Japanese immigrant experience in America, the disconnect between first and second-generation immigrants ...
Dec 15, 2023 · Died. January 30 2011. Birth Location. Redondo Beach, CA. Generational Identifier. Nisei. Southern California Nisei writer of short stories Hisaye Yamamoto (1921–2011) was among the first Japanese American writers to win national renown after World War II. Yamamoto's upbringing in an immigrant farming community and her incarceration in a ...
Hisaye's story, "The High-Heeled Shoes" is an early feminist piece looking at the issues of sexual violence and harassment women faced daily from "the man on the street car with insistent thighs," to the threat of rape. Yamamoto Quote-"High-Heeled Shoes" (2021) by American Writers Museum American Writers Museum.
Hisaye Yamamoto’s “Seventeen Syllables” is the most popular short story in her collection, and it tracks two Japanese-American women. The mother loves poetry with 17 syllables while her daughter doesn’t understand this passion of hers; instead she prefers reading haiku that usually have fewer words per line than other types or poem forms such as ABC restructuring for kids activities ...
Hisaye YamamotoHisaye Yamamoto (born 1921) wrote numerous short stories about her experiences in an internment camp during World War II and about the generation gap between Japanese immigrants and their children, winning recognition from the Association for Asian American Studies for her collection, Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories.
Hisaye Yamamoto was born Aug. 23, 1921, in Redondo Beach, Calif. The daughter of immigrant strawberry farmers from Japan, she was a voracious reader and published her first story when she was 14.
Feb 13, 2011 · Hisaye Yamamoto's short stories 'were wonderful, beautiful legacies' of the experiences and dreams of Japanese Americans during and after their WWII internments. Over the years she developed an ...
Mar 14, 2012 · Hisaye Yamamoto, who died on Jan. 30, 2011 at the age of 89, remains known primarily as a literary artist, a crafter of powerful short fiction—such as her signature stories “Seventeen Syllables” and “Yoneko’s Earthquake”—as well as assorted newspaper columns. Yet the story of her development as a writer is less known, and bears ...
Feb 3, 2011 · Writer Hisaye Yamamoto LOS ANGELES — Hisaye Yamamoto, a pioneer in Asian American literature, passed away on Jan. 30, 2011 in Los Angeles at the age of 89. She was the author of “Seventeen Syllables,” “Yoneko’s Earthquake,” “The Legend of Miss Sasagawara” and other short stories about Japanese American life from the 1930s to the ...
Feb 24, 2011 · Hisaye Yamamoto was born on Aug. 23, 1921 in Redondo Beach, Calif. Like the family she depicted in “Seventeen Syllables,” her father Kanzo Yamamoto was a farmer. It was her mother Sae, better educated than her husband, who was attracted to literature, and who inspired her daughter to take an interest in learning.
