Karen Tei Yamashita
Author of Tropic of Orange
About the Author
Karen Tei Yamashita is the author of Through the Arc of the Rain Forest, Brazil-Maru, Tropic of Orange, Circle K Cycles, and I Hotel, all published by Coffee House Press. I Hotel was selected as a finalist for the National Book Award and awarded the California Book Award, the American Book Award, show more the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association Award, and the Association for Asian American Studies Book Award. She has been a u.s. Artists Ford Foundation Fellow and is currently professor of literature and creative writing and the coholder of the University of California Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. show less
Works by Karen Tei Yamashita
1974: I-Migrant 3 copies
Associated Works
Charlie Chan Is Dead 2: At Home in the World: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian-American Fiction (2004) — Contributor — 89 copies
Premonitions: The Kaya Anthology of New Asian North American Poetry (1995) — Contributor — 27 copies
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- Birthdate
- 1951-01-08
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Awards and honors
- John Dos Passos Prize (2018)
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I Hotel by Karen Tei Yamashita
Almost perfect. Yamashita is such an experimental and post-modern writer. She really questions form and what precisely a novel is within her works. I've been reading her works lately and this series of novellas is a labor of love. That's all I can say. It's changed me and that's the most powerful thing a novel can do for you if that isn't the goal of an author, I don't know what is.
An interesting read, it just did not engage my interest.
Note: I accessed a digital review copy through Edelweiss.
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