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Introduction
1. A Brief History of Japanese Americans
2. Japanese American Writers: An Overview
3. Theoretical Sources and Structure Framework
Chapter One Toshio Mori's Panorama of Japanese America
1. Toshio Mori: Life and Works
2. A Panorama of Japanese America in Yokohama, California
3. Mori's Language and Debt to Sherwood Anderson
Chapter Two The Politics of Gender, Class and Race in Hisaye Yamamoto's Fiction
1. Hisaye Yamamoto: Life and Works
2. Failed Men and Women in Yamamoto's Stories
3. Racial Cross-Sightings in Yamamoto's Stories
4. How Did Yamamoto Embroider Her Stories?
Chapter Three A Post-Traumatic Melodrama in John Okada's No-No Boy
1. John Okada: Life and Work
2. Japanese or American: An Imposed Binary Opposition
3. Racism and Social Reconciliation in No-No Boy
4. The Interior Monologue in No-No Boy
Chapter Four A Saga of Japanese in and beyond Hawaiian Plantations in Milton Murayama's Tetralogy
1. Sugar Plantation and Non-Internment: Japanese in Hawaii
2. Milton Murayama: Life and Works
3. The Politics of Labor and Race in Murayama's Novels
4. Freedom and Class Struggle in All I Asking for Is My Body
5. The Politics of Pidgin in All I Askingfor Is My Body
Conclusion
Works Cited
Index
Acknowledgement