Karen Tei Yamashita
Karen Tei Yamashita (Japanese: 山下てい, Born January 8, 1951 in Oakland, California) is a Japanese-American writer.
She is an 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 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 which was produced by the Asian American theatre group, East West Players.[1]
Yamashita was a finalist for the 2010 National Book Award.[2] In 2011 she was named a Fellow of United States Artists.[3]
Selected writings
- Through the Arc of the Rain Forest (1990)
- Brazil-Maru (1992)
- Tropic of Orange (1997)
- Circle K Cycles (2001)
- I Hotel (2010)
- Anime Wong: Fictions of Performance, edited with an afterword by Stephen Hong Sohn (2014)
References
External links
- Gier, Jean Vengua; Tejeda, Carla Alicia (1998). "An Interview with Karen Tei Yamashita". Jouvert: Journal of Postcolonial Studies. Retrieved 29 March 2006.
- Murashige, Michael. "Karen Tei Yamashita". Heath Anthology of American Literature. Retrieved 29 March 2006.
- "Karen Tei Yamashita" (PDF). Voices from the Gaps. University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
- Includes a list of critical work on the author and additional biographical details
- Cheng, Wendy (2005). "Karen Tei Yamashita: A Twist on the Mix". Loggernaut. Retrieved 3 July 2006.
- Covella, Linda. "UC Santa Cruz Professor Announced as National Book Award Finalist". Santa Cruz Patch. Archived from the original on July 15, 2011.
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