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Conversations With Maxine Hong Kingston (Literary Conversations Series)Author: Maxine Hong Kingston, Paul Skenazy, Tera MartinBy Univ Pr of Mississippi (Trd)Average Customer Review: ( 1 customer reviews )

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• Paperback: 237 pages
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Publication Date: December 31, 1969
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• A Great Read!, April 11, 2000
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• I first read Maxine Hong Kingston's Woman Warrior when I was in 10th grade and I fell in love with it! I am Asian American myself and I could relate to various aspects in the novel. However, a lot of the novel can be confusing so I was not sure if I had gotten enough out of it. So, when I saw this book, I had to buy it! I wanted to know her thoughts and feelings about the book and everything else. I was not disappointed! This was a great supplement to her novels and a great read in general. If you are a fan of Maxine Hong Kingston, this is a definite must have!

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Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior: A Casebook (Casebooks in Contemporary Fiction) Publisher: Oxford University Press, USAAverage Customer Review: ( 2 customer reviews )

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• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Publication Date: December 31, 1998
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• With the continued expansion of the literary canon, multicultural works of modern literary fiction and autobiography have assumed an increasing importance for students and scholars of American literature. This exciting new series assembles key documents and criticism concerning these works that have so recently become central components of the American literature curriculum. Each casebook will reprint documents relating to the work's historical context and reception, present the best in critical essays, and when possible, feature an interview of the author. The series will provide, for the first time, an accessible forum in r ich readers can come to a fuller understanding of these contemporary masterpieces and the unique aspects of American ethnic, racial, or cultural experience that they so ably portray. This case book presents a thought-provoking overview of critical debates surrounding The Woman Warrior, perhaps the best known Asian American literary work. The essays deal with such issues as the reception by various interpretive communities, canon formation, cultural authenticity, fictionality in autobiography, and feminist and poststructuralist subjectivity. The eight essays are supplemented an interview with the author and a bibliography.

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• Intriguing!, January 17, 2000
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• An haunting book that details the life of a Chinese American woman who struggles to find herself. Although the non-chronological structuring of the book is rather hard to follow, it is amazing. This book leaves an indelible mark on the mind and pierces the soul. Extremely recommended!

• This autobiographical work is complex but eye opening., October 1, 1999
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• Maxine Hong Kingston's autobiography is a complex work that takes careful analyzation. To fully understand how she uses this piece to tell her story, one must examine several aspects of Chinese culture. It is an interesting work that requires thought.

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An haunting book that details the life of a Chinese American woman who struggles to find herself. Although the non-chronological structuring of the book is rather hard to follow, it is amazing. This book leaves an indelible mark on the mind and pierces the soul. Extremely recommended!

• This autobiographical work is complex but eye opening., October 1, 1999
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Articulate Silences: Hisaye Yamamoto, Maxine Hong Kingston, Joy Kogawa (Reading Women Writing)Author: King-Kok CheungBy Cornell Univ Pr

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• Publisher: Cornell University Press
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Other Stories. Revised and Updated with four new stories.

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Reading Asian American LiteratureAuthor: Sau-Ling Cynthia Wong Publisher: Princeton Univ PrAverage Customer Review: ( 1 customer reviews )

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• Hardcover: 272 pages
• Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
• Publication Date: July 26, 1993
• Edition: New Ed
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• A recent explosion of publishing activity by a wide range of talented writers has placed Asian American literature in the limelight. As the field of Asian American literary studies gains increasing recognition, however, questions of misreading and appropriation inevitably arise. How is the growing body of Asian American works to be read? What holds them together to constitute a tradition? What distinguishes this tradition from the "mainstream" canon and other "minority" literatures? In the first comprehensive book on Asian American literature since Elaine Kim's ground- breaking 1982 volume, Sau-ling Wong addresses these issues and explores their implications for the multiculturalist agenda. Wong does so by establishing the "intertextuality" of Asian American literature through the study of four motifs--food and eating, the Doppelg,nger figure, mobility, and play--in their multiple sociohistorical contexts. Occurring across ethnic subgroup, gender, class, generational, and historical boundaries, these motifs resonate with each other in distinctly Asian American patterns that universalistic theories cannot uncover. Two rhetorical figures from Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior, "Necessity" and "Extravagance," further unify this original, wide-ranging investigation. Authors studied include Carlos Bulosan, Frank Chin, Ashley Sheun Dunn, David Henry Hwang, Lonny Kaneko, Maxine Hong Kingston, Joy Kogawa, David Wong Louie, Darrell Lum, Wing Tek Lum, Toshio Mori, Bharati Mukherjee, Fae Myenne Ng, Bienvenido Santos, Monica Sone, Amy Tan, Yoshiko Uchida, Shawn Wong, Hisaye Yamamoto, and Wakako Yamauchi.

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• Written with care, concern, wit, and respect for texts., June 6, 1999
• By Rob Wilson, (Honolulu and Santa Cruz)
• Everything Sauling Wong writes she writes with care, concern, wit, tact, and an immense respect for literary texts. This study is a classic by now, and the more "transnational" work beyond it can only renew its relevance and care. No diasporic opportunism would find a home here in such close and caring readings of the US Asia/Pacific texts of worldliness and quest.

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For those of us participating in the Book Mine Set's Canadian reading challenge, John has adapted his amazing list of provincial reads into a meme. The rules? Highlight in red those you've read, highlight in blue authors you've read (just not that particular book), and leave the rest black. This is his list as of today's date; but I've altered the meme a bit. I've taken out most of the children's books, as I 'm not planning on reading any as part of my challenge. And, I've added in purple books I've read and would recommend in these provincial categories.Newfoundland and LabradorCassie Brown- Death On The Ice (Non-fiction)Lisa Moore- Open (Short Stories)Lisa Moore- AlligatorWayne Johnston- Colony of Unrequited DreamsAl Pittman- Down By Jim Long’s Stage (Children’s poems)Al Pittman- West Moon (play)Harold Horwood- White EskimoHarold Horwood- Bartlett The Great Explorer (Non-fiction)Michael Crummey- River ThievesE. J. Pratt- Complete Poems (Poetry)Mary Dalton- Merrybegot (Poetry)Dillon Wallace- The Lure of The Labrador WildTed Russell- The Holdin’ Ground (play)Percy Janes- House of HateE. Annie Proulx- The ShippingNewsClaire Mowat- Outport People (Non-fiction)Jim Defede- The Day The World Came To Town (Non-fiction)Donna Morrissey- Kit’s LawKen Babstock- Airstream Land Yacht (Poetry)Bernice Morgan- Random PassageJoan Clark- An Audience of Chairs (read Latitudes of Melt - very good!)Earl B. Pilgrim- The Ghost of Ellen DowerDale Jarvis- Haunted Shores: True Ghost Stories of Newfoundland and LabradorPaul Butler-EastonEdward Riche- Rare BirdsKenneth J. Harvey- The Town That Forgot How To BreathePrince Edward IslandLucy Maud Montgomery- Anne of Green GablesDavid Helwig- SaltseaMichael Hennessey- The BetrayerJ. J. Steinfeld- Would You Hide Me? (Short Stories)Anne Compton- Processional (Poetry)Milton Acorn- I Shout Love and Other Poems (Poetry)Nova ScotiaFrank Parker Day- RockboundAlistair MacLeod- Island (Short Stories)Alistair MacLeod- No Great MischiefGeorge Elliott Clarke- Whylah Falls (Poetry)Anne Simpson- Loop (Poetry)Alden Nolan- The Best Of (Poetry)Hugh MacLennan- The Watch That Ends The NightThomas Chandler Haliburton- The ClockmakerErnest Buckler- The Mountain and the ValleyAnn-Marie MacDonald- Fall On Your KneesLinden MacIntyre- Causeway (Non-fiction)Brad Kessler- Birds InFallAmi McKay- The Birth HouseLesley Choyce - The Republic of NothingNew BrunswickDavid Adams Richards- Mercy Among The ChildrenCharles G. D. Roberts- The Collected Poems (Poetry)T. G. 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Reading Asian American LiteratureAuthor: Sau-ling Cynthia Wong Publisher: Princeton University PressAverage Customer Review: ( 1 customer reviews )

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• Paperback: 268 pages
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• Publication Date: July 12, 1993
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• A recent explosion of publishing activity by a wide range of talented writers has placed Asian American literature in the limelight. As the field of Asian American literary studies gains increasing recognition, however, questions of misreading and appropriation inevitably arise. How is the growing body of Asian American works to be read? What holds them together to constitute a tradition? What distinguishes this tradition from the "mainstream" canon and other "minority" literatures? In the first comprehensive book on Asian American literature since Elaine Kim's ground-breaking 1982 volume, Sau-ling Wong addresses these issues and explores their implications for the multiculturalist agenda.Wong does so by establishing the "intertextuality" of Asian American literature through the study of four motifs--food and eating, the Doppelg,nger figure, mobility, and play--in their multiple sociohistorical contexts. Occurring across ethnic subgroup, gender, class, generational, and historical boundaries, these motifs resonate with each other in distinctly Asian American patterns that universalistic theories cannot uncover. Two rhetorical figures from Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior, "Necessity" and "Extravagance," further unify this original, wide-ranging investigation. Authors studied include Carlos Bulosan, Frank Chin, Ashley Sheun Dunn, David Henry Hwang, Lonny Kaneko, Maxine Hong Kingston, Joy Kogawa, David Wong Louie, Darrell Lum, Wing Tek Lum, Toshio Mori, Bharati Mukherjee, Fae Myenne Ng, Bienvenido Santos, Monica Sone, Amy Tan, Yoshiko Uchida, Shawn Wong, Hisaye Yamamoto, and Wakako Yamauchi.

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• Written with care, concern, wit, and respect for texts., June 6, 1999
• By Rob Wilson, (Honolulu and Santa Cruz)
• Everything Sauling Wong writes she writes with care, concern, wit, tact, and an immense respect for literary texts. This study is a classic by now, and the more "transnational" work beyond it can only renew its relevance and care. No diasporic opportunism would find a home here in such close and caring readings of the US Asia/Pacific texts of worldliness and quest.

in, Ashley Sheun Dunn, David Henry Hwang, Lonny Kaneko, Maxine Hong Kingston, Joy Kogawa, David Wong Louie, Darrell Lum, Wing Tek Lum, Toshio Mori, Bharati Mukherjee, Fae Myenne Ng, Bienvenido Santos, Monica Son

posted by John Borst CCLA joint statement against the funding of religious schools September 21, 2007 Ontario’s schools are among the most diverse, tolerant and respectful of any schools in the world. Our public schools bring children together, regardless of wealth, status, race, religion, and ethnicity. Our public schools bring communities together. In the Ontario election, a proposal has been put forward to publicly fund faith-based schools. The Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) and the undersigned call upon all political parties to reject the proposal to fund religious schools, and to work to strengthen our public education system and to ensure that it continues to reflect the diversity of our communities. Public funding of religious schools will drain resources from the public system and promote private schools at the expense of public schools. It will fragment and divide our system along religious lines. 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Joy Kogawa's "Obasan": A Study Guide from Gale's "Novels for Students" (Volume 03, Chapter 10) Publisher: The Gale Group (July 23, 2002)Average Customer Review: ( 1 customer reviews )

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• One of Canada's finest and most empowering novels, October 31, 2003
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y the Gale Group--the world's leading source of literary criticism and analysis--this e-doc contains: plot summary; character analysis; author biography; an overview of the novel's themes, style, and historical context; a compendium of in-depth critical material; study questions; suggestions for further reading; and much more. Why choose "Novels For Students"? Because no other source offers so much in such a compact package. Trust the experts: The Gale Group--and "Novels for Students."Customer Reviews

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ObasanAuthor: Joy KogawaBy Anchor (December 27, 1993)Average Customer Review: ( 50 customer reviews )

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• Based on the author's own experiences, this award-winning novel was the first to tell the story of the evacuation, relocation, and dispersal of Canadian citizens of Japanese ancestry during the Second World War.

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• Too Bad Young Reviewers were assigned this book!, January 22, 2007
• By S. Rudolph
• I think this is a great book. There are many reviews describing why I feel this way. My comment is about the youth reviewers that are so very negative and don't understand this book and hated trying to read it as a school assignment. WHY on earth would a teacher assign this book as required reading to any student in a lower grade than maybe the 12th? It is obvious by the reviews of the younger youth, they don't understand the way the book is written, they don't understand the impact of the subject of this book, they haven't grown up enough to see the "big picture". I think teachers should "stretch" students reading agendas but this is a stretch that for the majority of students will do nothing but turn them off from reading! This book is certainly appropriate as a college assignment.

• don't read this book, October 9, 2006
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• This is without a doubt, the single worst book I have ever read. There is no plot or character development, far too much description of scenery and the way the story switches from the past to the present and back again makes the book impossible to understand. There are also parts of the book that are uneccessarily disgusting. This is a horrible book and it is an insult to its subject, the internment of Japanese-Canadians after the bombing of Pearl Harbour.

• Obasan, September 30, 2006
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• After reading the reviews there's so much mixed feelings and opinions... I chose to read this book as a school project but maybe I made a wrong choice? I see it's for older, mature audiences. I'm in grade [.....]grade.Yes... I'll write a review after I read it. I think I'm gonna believe the people who says it's good, I've read MUCH MUCH worse things, you kids should be happy you got this XP haNo need to rate this comment, I'm just saying...

• deeply moving and elegantly written, March 31, 2006
• By Aleksandra Nita-Lazar, (MA, USA)
• I picked "Obasan" from the shelf with new books in the library, motivated by the title and author's name, driven by my fascination with everything Japanese. And, as it came out, I this is exactly what is criticized in the book. Joy Kogawa is Canadian, of the family living in Canada for generations. She is a poet, which has a beautiful influence on her prose, which is very precise whenever she wants it to be, and, on the other hand, full of unique similes and metaphors. The language changes depending on the perspective - the narrator is Naomi Nakane, a 35 year old teacher, who, confronted with the past, goes back to her childhood memories, reads letters from family and officials, and at present takes care of her Uncle's funeral arrangements. The book is not very big, yet it is good to take time to read it, to take it in. Whereas the language is a very strong asset of this novel, the story was extremely moving for me too. Maybe it is only European ignorance- I knew nothing about persecutions and internalization of Canadian citizens of Japanese origin during World War II. I was, shortly speaking, shocked, because I regarded Canada as one of the most liberal countries, caring for the inhabitants. It seems that no nation has an unstained past...It is great that books like "Obasan" are written, because the general unawareness of this problem, especially when Holocaust and Gulags are widely recognized (and there were times when nobody believed in concentration camps in Poland or work camps in Siberia), is absolutely unacceptable.The suffering of one Japanese family, deprived of their belongings, fighting for humane treatment and trying to keep some dignity while treated with disrespect and separated, seen mostly by innocent child's eyes, is a powerful evocation. The issues of racism, different perception of people because of their appearance and roots, children's cruelty, are also discussed.A great and successful effort. I am going to read the second part,"Itsuka", as soon as I can lay my hands on it.

• Obasan: About 250 Pages Too Long, September 22, 2005
• By xtinah
• While having a good plotline, this book took 300 pages to tell what could've been written in 50. Good historical book, lets people know about events in the past, but just not a good novel.

s in Siberia), is absolutely unacceptable.The suffering of one Japanese family, deprived of their belongings, fighting for humane treatment and trying to keep some dignity while treated with disrespect and separated, seen mostly by innocent child's eyes, is a powerful evocation. The issues of racism, different perception of people because of their appearance and roots, children's cruelty, are also discussed.A great and successful effort. I am going to read the second part,"Itsuka", as soon as I can lay my hands on it.

• Obasan: About 250 Pages Too Long, September 22, 2005
• By xtinah
• While having a good plotline, this book took 300 pages to tell what could've been written in 50. Good his

Naiko, the narrator, works in the Undeliverable Mail Office for Canada Post where she tries to reunite people with their lost possessions and orphaned letters, a task that offers a glimpse into the lives of complete strangers. There she meets the enigmatic Andrei, a Romanian refugee with a haunting past. When he disappears from work, Naiko becomes obsessed with finding out what happened to him.I especially enjoyed the epigraphs at the beginning of each section as well as Naiko's lists of characters's personal possessions which all gesture to the elusive nature of truth. Quotations such as "We do not remember days, we remember moments" and "Dead letters! Does it not sound like dead men?" add another layer of meaning.Try to distill your life or the life of someone you love into a handful of objects. Maclear's humanity "is an indispensable part of everything she writes. It is the basis of her commitment to history's forgotten people and its undelivered stories. Her voice is exquisite and incisive." Listen to Joy Kogawa.e Undeliverable Mail Office for Canada Post where she tries to reunite people with their lost possessions and orphaned letters, a task that offers a glimpse into the lives of complete strangers. There she meets the enigmatic Andrei, a Romanian refugee with a haunting past. When he disappears from work, Naiko becomes obsessed with finding out what happened to him.I especially enjoyed the epigraphs at the beginning of each section as well as Naiko's lists of characters's personal possessions which all gesture to the elusive nature of truth. Quotations such as "We do not remember days, we remember moments" and "Dead letters! Does it not sound like dead men?" add another layer of meaning.Try to distill your life or the life of someone you love into a handful of objects. Maclear's humanity "is an indispensable part of everything she writes. It is the basis of her commitment to history's forgotten people and its undelivered stories. Her voice is exquisite and

reading

• George Orwell: 1984
• George Orwell: Animal FarmOrwell hoped to write a novel that exposed the murderous truth of the Soviet System.
• Joseph Heller: Catch-22
• Adeline Yen Mah: Falling Leaves
• Joy Kogawa: Obasan
• John Steinbeck: Of Mice and MenA novel tells the reality of a American dream
• J. D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye
• Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird

Originally published in Rinkside in 1999 By Lucas Aykroyd If NHL hockey players were trees, the Kariya brothers would be bonsai. The parallels between Anaheim Mighty Ducks superstar Paul Kariya, his emerging sibling Steve Kariya of the Vancouver Canucks and the meticulously cultivated Japanese miniature trees are more than whimsical. All of them resemble their larger counterparts, but achieve an above-average standard of artistic perfection. Though small, they are surprisingly resilient. And like bonsai, Paul and Steve Kariya represent a proud example of Japanese heritage. Until recently, players of Japanese origin had little impact in the hockey world. The very idea of Japanese hockey players was taken lightly. At the 1974 NHL Entry Draft, Buffalo Sabres general manager Punch Imlach decided to have some fun by drafting a fictitious player called “Taro Tsujimoto” of the “Tokyo Katanas.” The Buffalo media was fooled by this hoax, and only weeks later did Imlach confess that the Sabres public relations director had helped him cook up the joke. Although Steve Tsujiura of Coaldale, Ontario enjoyed a distinguished career with the AHL’s Maine Mariners in the 1980’s, names like Hideji Tsuchida and Hiroyuki Miura (Montreal’s 260th pick in the 1992 Entry Draft) faded into obscurity in the East Coast Hockey League. No native-trained Japanese hockey players have emulated the example of baseball pitcher Hideo Nomo by crossing the Pacific Ocean to make a splash at the major pro level in North America. Top performers in the Land of the Rising Sun, such as forwards Yoshio Hoshino, Hideo Kurokawa, and Osamu Wakabayashi, all played their best hockey during the 1970’s, when Japan iced several Olympic teams that failed to come close to the medal podium. “Failure,” though, is not a word that exists in the Kariya brothers’ vocabulary. Level-headed and determined, these players of Japanese parentage both know what it takes to compete with speed and skill in the world’s best hockey league. While Paul, the NHL’s Lady Byng Trophy winner in 1996 and 1997, has already staked out his turf as one of hockey’s most talented and gentlemanly players, the spotlight has focused on Steve early in the 1999-2000 season. After captaining the University of Maine Black Bears to an NCAA championship last season, the 21-year-old left wing signed with Vancouver as a free agent on April 16, 1999. But few expected him to step right into the Canucks lineup at a mere 5-7 and 170 pounds. Proving the doubters wrong, Steve tied for second in preseason scoring among all NHL players with 10 points (2-8-10) in six games. Steve’s performance in regular season play has impressed Canucks captain and future Hall-of-Famer Mark Messier. “He’s played great,” says Messier. “Nobody knew what to expect, but he came into camp and earned a spot on the team. Of course, he’s a first-year player, and there’s a lot to learn for any first-year player.” On a promising Vancouver squad that features other impressive rookies, such as forwards Peter Schaefer and Artem Chubarov, Steve isn’t taken aback by all the media attention he’s been singled out for. “I don’t know if I’m deserving of it,” he admits. “But I’ve had to deal with it throughout my career, because Paul is my older brother. So I’m not overwhelmed by it all.” But Canuck fans are starving for a local hero. Steve, born in North Vancouver on December 22, 1977, appears to fit the bill. With the departure of Russian wunderkind Pavel Bure and Vancouver native Cliff Ronning in recent seasons, GM Place hasn’t hosted a small, flashy player like Steve Kariya in a long time. And since Alexander Mogilny and Teemu Selanne tied for the league lead in goals with 76 apiece in 1992-93, the temptation to compare Steve’s slick partnership with linemate Mogilny to Paul’s Anaheim alliance with Selanne is hard to resist. Steve’s first NHL goal, a clincher in a 4-1 victory over the Montreal Canadiens, earned him a standing ovation from the Vancouver crowd. Amusingly, he received almost as loud of a cheer for his first minor penalty three nights earlier against Chicago. Still, Steve refuses to get caught up in the adulation. Never drafted by an NHL club due to his size, he just has to look at once-promising first-round picks like Alexandre Daigle or Jason Bonsignore to recognize that talent will only take you so far. He used his undrafted status as motivation. “Obviously you need some talent, but so much of it is based on work ethic,” he says.”That’s what I’ve had to rely on the last four or five years, and it’s paying off now. But I have to keep working hard if I want to become a better player. I’m not happy with just making the team. I want to really contribute to this organization and be a good player here.” If the past is any indication, Steve will make the transition. His commitment to the trademark Japanese values of hard work, discipline, and education has already brought him a long way. Like Paul, he starred in the British Columbia Junior Hockey League, garnering rookie-of-the-year honors with the Nanaimo Clippers in 1994-95. He followed in his brother’s footsteps to the University of Maine, where he led the Black Bears in scoring and won the Len Ceglarski Sportsmanship Award each year from 1996-97 to 1998-99 while maintaining academic honors. He capped his NCAA career by being named a finalist for the Hobey Baker Award (best college player). “Attending Maine was one of the best decisions of my life,” Steve says. “The biggest reason I went there was the coaches. Shawn Walsh and his staff were huge mentors to me. The college lifestyle was a real fun time, and I enjoyed it.” Steve appears to have a more fun-loving personality than Paul, who gained a reputation as media-shy early in his career. At any Canucks practice, Steve scoots around the ice with a broad grin on his face. He wrestles the helmet off goaltender Garth Snow during a scrimmage. He kibbitzes with Dave Scatchard as the two toss a medicine ball back and forth in the tunnel long after other players have departed. “I’m a big believer that if you’re not having fun and you’re not enjoying yourself, then you’re not going to play well,” Steve says. “I don’t think you can play a good game if you’re nervous or angry or frustrated. And that’s some of the best advice Paul gave me. He said I’m going to have a lot of highs and lows this season, but I have a chance to be successful if I do my best and enjoy the experience.” Of course, good advice isn’t all that Paul shares with Steve. One-step quickness, a blinding wrist shot and slick passing are among the attributes the brothers have in common. But over the past five seasons, Paul has refined those skills to an amazing level with the Mighty Ducks. Since being chosen 4th overall in the 1993 NHL Entry Draft, the Anaheim captain has emerged as Canada’s best bet to become the successor to Wayne Gretzky, the greatest player in NHL history. The Great One himself testifies: “I don’t think there’s ever been a more dedicated player in the game than Paul Kariya. He has such great hockey sense. What sets Paul apart from the rest is that he can do everything at top speed, whereas most players lose half a step when they handle a puck or shoot. He uses his speed to get open and he gets more good, open shots on net than any player I’ve seen.” Such ability reaps big rewards in today’s NHL. This season, the 25-year-old Vancouver native will make $10 million, second only to Pittsburgh’s Jaromir Jagr. Anaheim teammate Guy Hebert says: “Paul is one of about five people in this league who can write on a napkin how much he wants and get it.” However, Kariya’s greatest desire has eluded him so far: success in the Stanley Cup playoffs. He’s posted some dazzling regular season performances, scoring 100 points twice and being named the runnerup for the Hart Trophy in 1996-97, but the Mighty Ducks have never gotten past the second round in post-season action. “The biggest challenge this team faces as we move into the new season is becoming a character team that can take the next step,” says Paul. “We need to continue to improve as a team and give ourselves a chance to win every night, no matter who the opponent. We had some success last year but we’re hopeful that this season will be even better.” He has reason for optimism, as the Ducks boast emerging stars like Oleg Tverdovsky and Steve Rucchin. But Anaheim’s success this season still hinges on the offense Paul generates with his good buddy, the Finnish Flash. While Selanne won the inaugural Maurice Richard Trophy with 47 goals in 1998-99, Paul says he’s even more impressed with another aspect of his linemate’s game: “I think Teemu’s passing skills are unbelievable. His passing is the most underrated part of his game. He’s a good passer in transition, and he’s an even better passer when it comes to scoring chances around the net. Teemu puts it right where you need it.” He makes the game sound easy, but scoring in today’s tough, defense-oriented NHL is anything but. To endure the rigors of an 82-game schedule, the 5-10 left wing has bulked up to 180 pounds with his off-season weightlifting routine. Plagued by untimely injuries in the past—such as an abdominal strain that kept him out of the 1996 World Cup and a concussion that sidelined him for the 1998 Olympics—Paul says weightlifting also gives him a mental boost. “I’m automatically going to drop some body weight during the season because of the amount of play. But as long as I’m lifting the same weights that I did at the start of the season, I’m going to feel strong mentally and that’s the most important thing.” The competitive Kariya has shown his mental toughness many times. One of the best examples was his play in international competitition in 1994. Coming off a disappointing loss to Sweden after the gold medal shootout at the Lillehammer Olympics, Paul recovered to lead Team Canada to victory with his five goals and seven assists at the world championships in Italy a few months later. It takes pride to come back like that. And Paul grew up with a great deal of pride in his family. When Steve was playing in Maine last year, he checked every day to find out how his brother was doing. His sister Noriko, a third-year Maine student who plays on the school field hockey team, faxed articles about Steve to Paul in Anaheim. She’ll have to continue the practice now that another younger brother, Martin, has started playing for the Black Bears after a 108-point season with the Victoria Salsa that ranked him eighth in the BCHL scoring derby. Both Paul and Steve acknowledge the debt they owe to their father, Tetsuhiko Kariya. Tetsuhiko, a teacher at Argyle Secondary in North Vancouver, is of full Japanese descent. It’s clear he passed on sporting genes to his children, as he played several tours with the Canadian national rugby team. “My father taught us a tremendous work ethic and I credit him for passing that on to me,” Paul states. “He also taught me to be humble in everything that I do. He means a lot to me.” “He taught me at a very young age that you make decisions for yourself,” adds Steve, who appreciates the influence of Japanese culture in his upbringing. While he never learned to speak Japanese, food is a different story. “I love Japanese food,” Steve says with a grin. “I eat sushi all the time and go to Japanese restaurants. We always have Japanese food when I go over to my grandparents, and my mom cooks at that time as well.” As in other countries, belonging to a visible minority in Canada is not free of problems. During World War II, the Kariyas’ grandparents, Isamu and Fumiko, were kept in an internment camp for five years. This dark period in Japanese-Canadian history grabbed the public eye in Joy Kogawa’s award-winning 1983 novel Obasan. Steve simply comments, “What went on there wasn’t the best thing that could happen. But it happened, and it’s over with. I don’t think my grandparents or anyone else holds any grudges.” In Steve’s experience, the racist attitudes of yesteryear haven’t carried through to today’s hockey rinks: “I’ve never had that problem. Maybe in the BC junior leagues a couple of times, but never in college. Occasionally you’ll get a couple of guys who say stuff. But by college, I think everyone’s more mature than in junior, and just that much more respectful of people. And it certainly hasn’t happened up here [in the NHL].” For 1999-2000, the NHL has instituted a Diversity Task Force to educate players about cultural sensitivity. This makes it even less likely that there will be repeats of incidents such as those in recent years where players of a different skin color, such as Florida’s Peter Worrell or Edmonton’s Mike Grier, were subjected to racist slurs. Paul Kariya ’s summary of his attitude toward his ethnic roots is eloquent: “I am proud of my Japanese heritage, but am even more proud of being a Canadian. I have met many people from Japan who are fans and everyone I have ever met has been very nice.” There was disappointment in Japan when Paul was unable to visit the country on two separate occasions due to contract problems and injuries: Anaheim’s 1997-98 season opener against Vancouver in Tokyo, and the Nagano Olympics four months later. The visibility of players like Paul and Steve may help to heighten the profile of hockey in Japan in the long run. The Japanese Hockey Foundation was set up in 1929, but today there are still only six teams playing a 30-game schedule in the national league. Of those six teams, two have dominated, with 20 championships between them in the period of 1974-75 to 1997-98: Kokudo Tokyo and Oji Seishi Tomakomai. Young Japanese fans often get their first taste of NHL action through video games such as NHL 2000 by EA Sports. But knowing the Kariya brothers, they won’t likely set their sights on a task as monumental as bringing puck mania to Asia. They try to stay rooted in the present, like bonsai unswayed by the wind. Their goal is to win for their NHL teams this year. “Stay on an even keel” is how Steve Kariya puts it. Sounds like The Little Tree That Could.contract problems and injuries: Anaheim’s 1997-98 season opener against Vancouver in Tokyo, and the Nagano Olympics four months later. The visibility of players like Paul and Steve may help to heighten the profile of hockey in Japan in the long run. The Japanese Hockey Foundation was set up in 1929, but today there are still only six teams playing a 30-game schedule in the national league. Of those six teams, two have dominated, with 20 championships between them in the period of 1974-75 to 1997-98: Kokudo Tokyo and Oji Seishi Tomakomai. Young Japanese fans often get their first taste of NHL action through video games such as NHL 2000 by EA Sports. Bu

I need to never go into a bookstore again… well, for a few months, anyway. Spent about $100 on books and a few records today. An inventory…

• Beloved - Toni Morrison
• Obasan - Joy Kogawa
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead - Tom Stoppard
• The Shipping News - E. Annie Proulx
• The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins (bought this one at Coles, all others at Oryx)
• 10,000 Maniacs - In My Tribe
• Led Zeppelin - In Through the Out Door
• U2 - Rattle and Hum

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Part 1: http://cyano.livejournal.com/364014.htmlI am Japanese-American. To be specific, I am what is known as Yonsei.Issei are the 'first generation' that emmigrate, Nisei are their children, Sansei their grandchildren.Yonsei are the great-grandchildren.People ask me if I know Japanese. Truthfully, I know very little. I know more cultural stuff, contextual things, than the ins and outs of the language. I took Spanish in school, even though Japanese was actually an option at the insanely multi-cultural and painfully yuppie HS. My sister was braver, she dove into the Japanese classes, only to get frustrated when our Grandma started correcting what the teacher was teaching. We are taught to respect our elders, and that we respect teachers as surrogate elders. The conflict was too much, and she threw up her hands in frustration.The term Issei is actually pretty antiquated, and it isn't used in the overall discourse very often any more. With the exception of the topic of World War II. It was not all that long ago that I had to inform my teachers, and even my professors about the Japanese Internment. The cultural context of the different generations is very significant, especially when you throw in the issue of adaptation and assimilation.No-No Boy by John Okada about a young man who refuses to sign up for the war, and is a pariah ever after. Young Japanese-American men after 1942, who were imprisoned along with their parents, sisters, and children, were expected to fight for America in the war. You were asked 2 questions: Will you be willing to die for America? If given the chance, would you kill the Emperor of Japan? If the answer to those questions were both NO, then you were essentially an outcast. The members of the 442 Regimental Combat Team are still the most decorated unit in the history of the United States Military, with 21 Medal of Honors, among many many others. They took their motto "Go for Broke" very seriously, since most of them were fighting to prove the patriotism of every single Japanese-American imprisoned.Obasan by Joy Kogawa actually about the Japanese-Canadian internment camps, rather than those in the United States. This was a book that brought home to me the anger, the frustration, the helplessness of the situation in a way that other books hadn't. Why? Because I had previously been completely unaware that Canada had set up their own Internment Camps. I was 22, reading a book, and weeping over a history that I both knew, and didn't know all at the same time.We were at war with Germany, but they weren't particularly rounding up all of the Hildes and Rutgers out of fear. Yes, there was mis-trust, and plenty of the Hairy Eyeball, but they weren't sent off to 'Summer camp' as my Grandma referred to it as. Italians? no. Austrians? Swedish? Spanish? none to any. Because they looked like 'everyone else' and as long as they could master the language issues, they could pass. The Second and Third gen. Japanese-Americans, who were Born Citizens, had fewer rights than those who hadn't even gotten their citizenship. There is a story about Grandma, when the war ended she was pregnant with my dad. The hotels wouldn't allow the soldiers who were "Japanese" to stay there. They ended up staying at the house with Grandma, Grandpa, and my aunt, who was not quite 2. 40 GIs at one time, I believe. She stocked up on unrationed meats, and made them all breakfast. Took them to the bus station, where the bus refused to stop for "The Enemy". She told them to hide, and when the next bus was coming up the rise, she stepped out into the street and stared down the driver. Dumbfounded, they all got onto the bus. Having fought for a country that doesn't want them, and a woman who could have been their older sister, stepping out into traffic so they could go home.The stories go on and on, but these are the moments that highlight my context of racism. I hope to share more as the week goes on.This post is part of International Blog Against Racism Week, August 6-12, 2007.more information can be found at ibarw, participation information hereThoughtful dialog is always welcome stepped out into the street and stare

This 7,101 word article is taken from the 22 June 2007 edition of College Literature Abstract: It is characteristic of a "remembering author" like Proust, Walter Benjamin argues, that he aims, not at the realization of some "unheard of" or "unprecedented" happiness, but

Generations: The Chan Legacy on CBC Newsworld. July 29th - 4pm and midnightGenerations: The Chan Legacy on CBC Newsworld. July 29th - 4pm and midnight The Chan Legacy is the lead episode in the new documentary series Generations on CBC Newsworld. ; It debuted on July 4th - my grandmother's 97th birthday. How fitting! ; Because the show is about her grand-father Rev...Read the full post from GungHaggisFatChoyTags: Main Page, Upcoming Events, Chinese Canadian History, Rev. Chan Legacy Project, CBC TV Special "Gung Haggis Fat Choy", Gung Haggis dragon boat team information, Chinese Head Tax issues + Gim Wong's Ride for Redress, Vancouver Heritage and History, Joy Kogawa & Kogawa House, Canadian Identity & Heritage, Canadian Identity, Hapa culture, GENERATIONS: The Chan Legacy via Blogdigger blog search for missionaries addresses. team+information" rel="tag">Gung Haggis dragon boat team information, Chinese Head Tax issues + Gim Wong's Ride for Redress, Vancouver Heritage and History, Joy Kogawa & Kogawa House, Canadian Identity & Heritage, Canadian Identity, Hapa culture,

Belle & Sebastian with Monica Queen: Lazy Line Painter Jane 29 Palms by Bruno Dumont - Experimental horror film. Boards of Canada: Campfire Headphase Air: Moon Safari REM: Up Albert Camus: The Outsider Goldfrapp: Felt Mountain Loscil: First Narrows Sigur Ros: Agaelis byrjun (Icelandic for “It’s a good start”) Joy Kogawa: Obasan Michael Chabon: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

This poem, by Joy Kogawa is a delicious example of “awareness” and the wish to “communicate”…  I hope you enjoy it… Communication “you are swathed in layers of silly chains which i may not cut or burn or wrench away from you because you love them to reach you i must first say “how beautiful are your chains today” then I must kneel and tap my message on your chains and hope that you will hear.” -Joy Kogawa, from “The Splintered Moon” I have been that person in chains, now I am the person writing on them… -PM

I got rid of my fiction blog. I wasn’t making good use of it and nobody was reading it anyways. That doesn’t mean I’ve stopped writing stories though (in fact, I’ve worked on about five of them since I last posted here). Anyways, that’s gone… As for other news: the last couple of months I’ve been busy with work and, as of this past month, summer session at my college. Haven’t updated this blog due to both other things coming up and general apathy. I don’t usually have anything important to say so I just don’t bother (God, that sounds depressing!). Read a number of books since I’ve last posted. I’m not going to do the usual “Bemish Book Club” reviews this (it would just be too long) so I’ll do a simple breakdown of everything I’ve read over the summer: Books that I liked The Shipping News - Annie Proulx Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel - Jane Smiley Go Tell It on the Mountain - James Baldwin (for African-American Lit. class) Moses, Man of the Mountain - Zora Neale Hurston (for African-American Lit. class) Reading Like a Writer - Francine Prose Paradise - Toni Morrison (for African-American Lit. class) Middlesex - Jeffery Eugenides Books I need to reread before a “true ” final verdict Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson The Crying of Lot 49 - Thomas Pynchon The Color Purple - Alice Walker (for African-American Lit. class) Hip: A History - John Leland Books I didn’t really like The Narrative of Frederick Douglass - Frederick Douglass (for African-American Lit. class) A Visitation of Spirits - Randall Kenan (for African-American Lit. class) Book I tried reading by just couldn’t get through it Dune - Frank Herbert Book I’m reading now The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov Books that I want to read next Dead Souls - Nikolai Gogol Beasts of No Nation - Uzodinma Iweala Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro Books that I will be reading regardless what whether I want to or not (Graduating Senior Edition) (for Asian-American Lit. class) The Woman Warrior - Maxine Hong Kingston Dogeaters - Jennifer Hagedorn My Year of Meats - Ruth L. Ozeki Obasan - Joy Kogawa (a book I hated reading in high school) Makai - Kathleen Tyau The Middleman and Other Stories - Bharati Mukherjee Notes from the Divided Country - Suji Kwock Kim and Sue Kwock Kim The Gangsters We Are All Looking For -Thi Diem Thuy Le (for British Victorian Lit. class) Silas Marner - George Eliot Tess of the d’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy The Moonstone - Wilkie Coliins The Good Soldier - Ford Maddox Ford Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad Great Expectations - Charles Dickens Wuthering Heights - Charlottle Bronte The Story of an African Farm - Olive Screiber The Diary of Mademoiselle d’Arvers - Toru Dutt I seem to be doing this mostly for my own enjoyment but there’s the list. Also, I was a little bummed this weekend that I missed out on Otakon. Normally I don’t enjoy anime conventions (last one I went to was Katsucon ‘01) but after I heard that Tomokazu Seki was going to be a guest of honor, I was a little miffed. In retrospect, I don’t think plopping down $40 (if not more) for admission and wading through a sea of obnoxious cosplayers yelling out 4chan memes would have been worth it just to see him though. Alright, enough’s enough. I’m going to leave you with a few clips: Tomokazu Seki voicing hotblooded Animate manager Meito Anisawa in Lucky Star ep.10 Meito Anisawa vs. “Clerk Sugita” (Tomokazu Sugita - I swear, had it been Sugita this year instead I would have been really pissed for not going…) in Lucky Star ep. 12 Justice - “D.A.N.C.E.” (While old news, I still love this song. The video’s great too.) Spoon - “The Underdog” P.S. - Notice how I changed the template - I thought the place was looking a little drab… sed for not going…) in Lucky Star ep. 12 Justice - “D.A.N.C.E.” (While old news, I still love this song. The video’s great too.)