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Speak, Okinawa Elizabeth Miki Brina

Speak, Okinawa von Elizabeth Miki Brina

Speak, Okinawa Elizabeth Miki Brina


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Zusammenfassung

A daughter born between two cultures - the US and Japan - grapples with the question: where is my home, and how will I recognise it when I reach it?

Speak, Okinawa Zusammenfassung

Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir Elizabeth Miki Brina

Here's a story. On the U.S.-occupied island of Okinawa, an American soldier falls in love with a beautiful Japanese woman. He saves her from a life of grinding poverty. They settle in the States, to live out the suburban American Dream with their child. Here's another version. The U.S. military has occupied Okinawa since World War Two, after slaughtering a third of the island's population; the beautiful Japanese woman lives in poverty and marries the soldier as a way to escape. Here's a third version. A little girl grows up with a mother who can't pronounce her name. She meets blood relatives with whom she cannot communicate. She clings to a sense of whiteness that white peers will not let her claim. She is born as the convergence of these conflicting stories and as she grows up she must reclaim her own narrative. Speak, Okinawa is Elizabeth Miki Brina's courageous and heart-breaking testament to the struggle for belonging. It is a story about the immigrant experience; it is a story about how it feels to grow up biracial; it is a story about the island of Okinawa, from its first inhabitants to its colonisation by Japan and the United States. But above all, it is a story about reckoning with your history, and the links that tie you to your heritage and give you a sense of home within yourself.

Über Elizabeth Miki Brina

Elizabeth Miki Brina received her MFA in creative writing from the University of New Orleans. She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Bread Loaf Scholarship and a New York Summer Writers Institute Scholarship. She currently lives and teaches in New Orleans.

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GOR011369614
9781783785971
1783785977
Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir Elizabeth Miki Brina
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Granta Books
20210401
304
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