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ISBN 13/10:9781566892391 Author: Yamashita, Karen Tei
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Year: 2010 Edition: First
Binding: Trade Paper
Condition: New
Description: Dazzling and ambitious, this hip, multi-voiced fusion of prose, playwriting, graphic art, and philosophy spins an epic tale of America’s struggle for civil rights and Third World Power as it played out in San Francisco’s Chinatown-Manilatown. Divided into ten novellas, one for each year, I Hotel begins in 1968, when Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated, students took to the streets, the Vietnam War raged, and cities burned.As Karen Yamashita’s motley cast of students, laborers, artists, revolutionaries, and provocateurs make their way through the history of the day, they become caught in a riptide of politics and passion, clashing ideologies and personal turmoil. And by the time the survivors unite to save the International Hotel—epicenter of the Asian American Movement—their stories have come to define the very heart of the American experience.
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