Mizumura, Minae
An I-Novel
- ISBN 13:
- 9780231192132
- author:
- Mizumura, Minae
- format:
- Paperback / softback
- publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2021
- Pages:
- 344
- Dimensions:
- 21.6 x 14 centimeters (0.67 kg)
- Genre:
- Fiction & Literature, Literary, Fiction & Literature,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Minae Mizumura's An I-Novel is a semi-autobiographical work that takes place over the course of a single day in the 1980s. The novel follows a Japanese expatriate graduate student who has lived in the United States for two decades, but has turned her back on American culture and English language. As she spends the day reflecting in solitude and over the phone with her sister, Mizumura explores urgent questions of identity, race, and language. Her innovative use of English words and phrases, as well as the novel's horizontal layout, challenge traditional Japanese literary conventions. This luminous meditation on becoming a writer raises essential questions about what it means to write in an era dominated by English, and to be a writer of Japanese. Published in 1995, An I-Novel has been widely praised for its bold experimentation and thought-provoking themes.
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