Nisei Daughter (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Kazuko Monica Itoi
- First Published: 1953
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Time of Work: The 1920’s to the 1940’s
- Setting: Seattle, Washington, and Idaho
- Principal Characters: Monica Itoi Sone, Mr., Henry, Sumiko Itoi
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Culture, Parents and children, Racism, Sexism, Gender roles, World War II, Asian Americans, Japan or Japanese people, Japanese Americans
- Locales: Chicago, IL, Seattle, WA, Indiana, Idaho
Form and Content
In her autobiography Nisei Daughter, Monica Sone examines her life as a Nisei, a first-generation Japanese American, in Seattle, Washington. She writes her life story chronologically, beginning with her childhood and ending in young adulthood, when she and her family were placed in internment camps after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941.
Sone begins her autobiography with her parents telling her that she is of Japanese ancestry. Her parents informed her that she is a Nisei, a first-generation Japanese American born and reared in the United...
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