The American Diary of a Japanese Girl: An Annotated EditionTemple University Press, 28 de fev. de 2007 - 224 páginas The first American novel by a writer of Japanese ancestry, The American Diary of a Japanese Girl is a landmark of modern American fiction and Japanese American transnationalism. First published in 1902, Yone Noguchi's novel describes the turn-of-the-century adventures of Tokyo belle Miss Morning Glory in a first-person narrative that The New York Times called "perfectly ingenuous and unconventional." Initially published as an authentic journal, the Diary was later revealed to be a playful autobiographical fiction written by a man. No less than her creator, Miss Morning Glory delights in disguises, unabashedly switching gender, class, and ethnic roles. Targeting the American fantasy of Madame Butterfly, Noguchi's New Woman heroine prays for "something more decent than a marriage offer," and freely dispenses her insights on Japanese culture and American lifestyles. With the addition of perceptive critical commentary and comprehensive notes, this first annotated edition sheds new light on the creative inventiveness of an important modernist writer. |
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... JAPANESE GIRL is both an en- tertaining book and one that deserves a special place in the history of American literature. The first long work of prose fiction by a person of Japanese descent in the United States, it counters the ...
... JAPANESE GIRL is both an en- tertaining book and one that deserves a special place in the history of American literature. The first long work of prose fiction by a person of Japanese descent in the United States, it counters the ...
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... Japanese girl could choose them.”2 The author behind the “Morning Glory” persona was not a Japanese girl but a young Japanese man, Yone Noguchi, who had been living in the United States since the mid-1890s. Born Yonejirō Noguchi in 1875 ...
... Japanese girl could choose them.”2 The author behind the “Morning Glory” persona was not a Japanese girl but a young Japanese man, Yone Noguchi, who had been living in the United States since the mid-1890s. Born Yonejirō Noguchi in 1875 ...
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... Japanese women and love in the Japanese-themed prose fiction and theatrical performances popular since the mid-1880s, when Gilbert and Sullivan's light opera The Mikado had initiated the “Japan” craze on stage. A biting satire of ...
... Japanese women and love in the Japanese-themed prose fiction and theatrical performances popular since the mid-1880s, when Gilbert and Sullivan's light opera The Mikado had initiated the “Japan” craze on stage. A biting satire of ...
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... Japanese girls or women. A delicious send-up of theatrical Japon- isme, for example, enlivens her diary entries for 1 and 17 November 1900. When Morning Glory's American friend Ada dresses up in a kimono and tries to walk like a Japanese ...
... Japanese girls or women. A delicious send-up of theatrical Japon- isme, for example, enlivens her diary entries for 1 and 17 November 1900. When Morning Glory's American friend Ada dresses up in a kimono and tries to walk like a Japanese ...
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... person pretends to be someone else pretending to be precisely what he or she ... girls by making them pretend that he is a god.”20 Similar cases of self ... Japanese immigrants in turn-of-the-century America. Noguchi was one of ...
... person pretends to be someone else pretending to be precisely what he or she ... girls by making them pretend that he is a god.”20 Similar cases of self ... Japanese immigrants in turn-of-the-century America. Noguchi was one of ...
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Afterword by Edward Marx | 131 |
Notes to the Introduction | 153 |
Notes to the Text | 156 |
Notes to the Afterword | 192 |
Works Cited | 196 |
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