East Is East (Identities and Issues in Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: T. Coraghessan Boyle
- First Published: 1990
- Genres: Long fiction, Satire
- Subjects: Culture, Mythology or myths, Racism, Suicide, Victims, Violence, Death or dying, Stereotypes, 1990’s, Aliens, illegal, Japan or Japanese people, Marijuana
- Locales: Georgia, Japan
The Work
T. Coraghessan Boyle’s fifth novel, East Is East, satirizes the intransigence of the American and Japanese cultures, exposing the ignorance and ethnocentrism fundamental to their mutual misunderstanding.
Hiro Tanaka, the illegitimate son of an American musician and a Japanese mother, jumps ship off the coast of Georgia, hoping to escape the stigma his half-breed heritage has earned him in his native Japan, and perhaps to track down the father whose act of abandonment drove Hiro’s mother to suicide. Hiro has a romantic image of America: “He...
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