The No No Boys
DOWNLOAD
Download The No No Boys PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get The No No Boys book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
No No Boy
DOWNLOAD
Author : John Okada
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2014-08-01
No No Boy written by John Okada and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-01 with Fiction categories.
"No-No Boy has the honor of being among the first of what has become an entire literary canon of Asian American literature,” writes novelist Ruth Ozeki in her new foreword. First published in 1957, No-No Boy was virtually ignored by a public eager to put World War II and the Japanese internment behind them. It was not until the mid-1970s that a new generation of Japanese American writers and scholars recognized the novel’s importance and popularized it as one of literature’s most powerful testaments to the Asian American experience. No-No Boy tells the story of Ichiro Yamada, a fictional version of the real-life “no-no boys.” Yamada answered “no” twice in a compulsory government questionnaire as to whether he would serve in the armed forces and swear loyalty to the United States. Unwilling to pledge himself to the country that interned him and his family, Ichiro earns two years in prison and the hostility of his family and community when he returns home to Seattle. As Ozeki writes, Ichiro’s “obsessive, tormented” voice subverts Japanese postwar “model-minority” stereotypes, showing a fractured community and one man’s “threnody of guilt, rage, and blame as he tries to negotiate his reentry into a shattered world.” The first edition of No-No Boy since 1979 presents this important work to new generations of readers.
We Hereby Refuse
DOWNLOAD
Author : Frank Abe
language : en
Publisher: Chin Music Press
Release Date : 2021-07-16
We Hereby Refuse written by Frank Abe and has been published by Chin Music Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-16 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
Three voices. Three acts of defiance. One mass injustice. The story of camp as you’ve never seen it before. Japanese Americans complied when evicted from their homes in World War II -- but many refused to submit to imprisonment in American concentration camps without a fight. In this groundbreaking graphic novel, meet JIM AKUTSU, the inspiration for John Okada’s No-No Boy, who refuses to be drafted from the camp at Minidoka when classified as a non-citizen, an enemy alien; HIROSHI KASHIWAGI, who resists government pressure to sign a loyalty oath at Tule Lake, but yields to family pressure to renounce his U.S. citizenship; and MITSUYE ENDO, a reluctant recruit to a lawsuit contesting her imprisonment, who refuses a chance to leave the camp at Topaz so that her case could reach the U.S. Supreme Court. Based upon painstaking research, We Hereby Refuse presents an original vision of America’s past with disturbing links to the American present.
The No No Boys
DOWNLOAD
Author : Teresa R. Funke
language : en
Publisher: Bailiwick Press
Release Date : 2008-11
The No No Boys written by Teresa R. Funke and has been published by Bailiwick Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Fourteen-year-old Tai Shimoda's family has lost everything. Like many other Japanese-Americans at the start of World War II, Tai's family has been forced to move to Tule Lake Relocation Center in Northern California. Though he misses his friends back home, Tai does his best to start a new life behind the barbed wire of camp. But in the spring of 1943, tensions at Tule Lake are growing. Tai's older brother has joined a group who has refused to swear allegiance to the United States. They call themselves the No-Nos. Tai's father calls them Disloyals. When the camp begins to split in two, Tai must decide what he believes. Will he join his beloved brother and the No-Nos or, like his father, remain true to America?
John Okada
DOWNLOAD
Author : Frank Abe
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2018-07-03
John Okada written by Frank Abe and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-03 with Social Science categories.
No-No Boy, John Okada’s only published novel, centers on a Japanese American who refuses to fight for the country that incarcerated him and his people in World War II and, upon release from federal prison after the war, is cast out by his divided community. In 1957, the novel faced a similar rejection until it was rediscovered and reissued in 1976 to become a celebrated classic of American literature. As a result of Okada’s untimely death at age forty-seven, the author’s life and other works have remained obscure. This compelling collection offers the first full-length examination of Okada’s development as an artist, placing recently discovered writing by Okada alongside essays that reassess his lasting legacy. Meticulously researched biographical details, insight from friends and relatives, and a trove of intimate photographs illuminate Okada’s early life in Seattle, military service, and careers as a public librarian and a technical writer in the aerospace industry. This volume is an essential companion to No-No Boy.
No Boys Allowed
DOWNLOAD
Author : Marilyn Levinson
language : en
Publisher: StarWalk Kids Media
Release Date : 2014-06-30
No Boys Allowed written by Marilyn Levinson and has been published by StarWalk Kids Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-30 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
After her father remarries and moves to another state, eleven-year-old Cassie declares war on all males, including her best friend Bobby. To make matters worse, Great-Uncle Harry moves in with them and soon discovers her secret. What's a girl to do?
No No Boy
DOWNLOAD
Author : John Okada
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 1981
No No Boy written by John Okada and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Fiction categories.
John Okada was born in Seattle, Washington in 1923. He attended the University of Washington and Columbia University. He served in the U.S. Army in World War II, wrote one novel and was dead of a heart attack at the age of 47. John Okada died in obscurity believing that Asian America had rejected his work. "Asian American readers will appreciate the sensitivity and integrity with which the late John Okada wrote about his own group. He heralded the beginning of an authentic Japanese American literature."--Gordon Hirabayashi,Pacific Affairs "Nisei will recognize the authenticity of the idioms Okada's characters use, as well as his descriptions of the familiar Issei and Nisei mannerisms that make them come alive." --Bill Hosokawa,Pacific Citizen
All That Work And Still No Boys
DOWNLOAD
Author : Kathryn Ma
language : en
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Release Date : 2009-09
All That Work And Still No Boys written by Kathryn Ma and has been published by University of Iowa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09 with Fiction categories.
How do we survive our family, stay bound to our community, and keep from losing ourselves? In All That Work and Still No Boys, Kathryn Ma exposes the deepest fears and longings that we mask in family life and observes the long shadows cast by history and displacement. Here are ten stories that wound and satisfy in equal measure. Ma probes the immigrant experience, most particularly among northern California’s Chinese Americans, illuminating for us the confounding nature of duty, transformation, and loss. A boy exposed to racial hatred finds out the true difference between his mother and his father. Two old rivals briefly lay down their weapons, but loneliness and despair won’t let them forget the past. A young Beijing tour guide with a terrible family secret must take an adopted Chinese girl and her American family to visit an orphanage. And in the prize-winning title story, a mother refuses to let her son save her life, insisting instead on a sacrifice by her daughter. Intimate in detail and universal in theme, these stories give us the compelling voice of an exciting new author whose intelligence, insight, and wit impart a sense of grace to the bitter resentments and enduring ties that comprise family love. Even through the tensions Ma creates so deftly, the peace and security that come from building and belonging to one’s own community shine forth.
No Boys Play Here A Story Of Shakespeare And My Family S Missing Men
DOWNLOAD
Author : Sally Bayley
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2021-01-21
No Boys Play Here A Story Of Shakespeare And My Family S Missing Men written by Sally Bayley and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-21 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
‘Nobody writes like Sally Bayley’ Lemn Sissay From the brilliantly original and critically acclaimed Sally Bayley, a literary story of working class childhood, absent or broken men and the power of literature to save and rebuild a world.
There Are No Children Here
DOWNLOAD
Author : Alex Kotlowitz
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2011-11-30
There Are No Children Here written by Alex Kotlowitz and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-30 with Social Science categories.
This is the moving and powerful account of two remarkable boys struggling to survive in Chicago's Henry Horner Homes, a public housing complex disfigured by crime and neglect.
Facing The Mountain
DOWNLOAD
Author : Daniel James Brown
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2021-05-11
Facing The Mountain written by Daniel James Brown and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-11 with History categories.
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One of NPR's "Books We Love" of 2021 Longlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Winner of the Christopher Award “Masterly. An epic story of four Japanese-American families and their sons who volunteered for military service and displayed uncommon heroism… Propulsive and gripping, in part because of Mr. Brown’s ability to make us care deeply about the fates of these individual soldiers...a page-turner.” – Wall Street Journal From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat, a gripping World War II saga of patriotism and resistance, focusing on four Japanese American men and their families, and the contributions and sacrifices that they made for the sake of the nation. In the days and months after Pearl Harbor, the lives of Japanese Americans across the continent and Hawaii were changed forever. In this unforgettable chronicle of war-time America and the battlefields of Europe, Daniel James Brown portrays the journey of Rudy Tokiwa, Fred Shiosaki, and Kats Miho, who volunteered for the 442nd Regimental Combat Team and were deployed to France, Germany, and Italy, where they were asked to do the near impossible. Brown also tells the story of these soldiers' parents, immigrants who were forced to submit to life in concentration camps on U.S. soil. Woven throughout is the chronicle of Gordon Hirabayashi, one of a cadre of patriotic resisters who stood up against their government in defense of their own rights. Whether fighting on battlefields or in courtrooms, these were Americans under unprecedented strain, doing what Americans do best—striving, resisting, pushing back, rising up, standing on principle, laying down their lives, and enduring.