The Arbutus/Madrone Files: Reading the Pacific NorthwestThis lively and perceptive look at the literature of the U.S. and Canadian Pacific Northwest explores the dynamics of the cross-border region using resonant quotations, poetry, song lyrics, and art to demonstrate and enhance Laurie Ricou's critical readings and ideas. |
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Page 71
... Okada's novel , Ichiro Yamada must escape from a mother silence in communities where forgetting is the strongest temptation - probably the force is stronger than the word " temptation " implies : " The walls had closed in and were ...
... Okada's novel , Ichiro Yamada must escape from a mother silence in communities where forgetting is the strongest temptation - probably the force is stronger than the word " temptation " implies : " The walls had closed in and were ...
Page 72
... Okada's novel was ignored , especially by the community which forms its subject . Okada's title , with its double negative and implicit racist appellation , sug- gests a universal and repeated denial . The Japanese North American ...
... Okada's novel was ignored , especially by the community which forms its subject . Okada's title , with its double negative and implicit racist appellation , sug- gests a universal and repeated denial . The Japanese North American ...
Page 75
... Okada's monologues . Whether we are to imagine Naomi writing a journal , or to follow Naomi imagining how she might write , the book we are holding replaces all those journals in Japanese that cruel , unfeeling authorities . destroyed ...
... Okada's monologues . Whether we are to imagine Naomi writing a journal , or to follow Naomi imagining how she might write , the book we are holding replaces all those journals in Japanese that cruel , unfeeling authorities . destroyed ...
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