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Circle K Cycles
A Literary Fiction Novel by Karen Tei Yamashita
Subgenres:
- Immigrant Fiction,
- Japanese Diaspora,
- Experimental Fiction
This book is for you if you're into...
- Hybrid forms blending collage, essay, and fiction
- Stories about Japanese Brazilian migration and cultural belonging
- Literary takes on labor and global identity shifts
Yamashita’s innovative melding of fiction and essay explores issues such as labor, nationalism, and cultural diaspora.
When the grandchildren of Japanese immigrants to Brazil move to Japan to assume the manual work native Japanese people no longer want, their need for cultural belonging, their homesickness for details of their birthplace, clash with the status quo.
This book of hybrids—merging collage with text, story with history—opens a door onto one of the important issues of the new century.
Yamashita has a powerful story to tell about a community that is globally extensive and the freedom—physical and emotional—implied by that new geography.
Karen Tei Yamashita is a winner of the American Book Award and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Award.
She is an assistant professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of California in Santa Cruz.
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