East Is East (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: T. Coraghessan Boyle
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The 1990’s
- Setting: Georgia and Japan
- Principal Characters: Hiro Tanaka, Ruth Dershowitz, Saxby Lights, Detlef Abercorn, Lewis Turco, Jane Shine, Septima Lights, Irving Thalamus, Olmstead White, Ambly Wooster
- 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
T. Coraghessan Boyle’s fiction is consistently concerned with the clash of cultures. Water Music (1981) focuses on misunderstandings between Britons and Africans in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, as well as between different levels of English society. Budding Prospects (1984) deals with conflicts between the backwoods denizens of rural Northern California and outsiders cultivating marijuana. Tensions between Indians and whites in both colonial and twentieth century Upstate New York are at the center of World’s End (1987), which also examines...
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