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| | Date & Time: | 2/9/2011 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM | | Department: | Comparative Literature | | Event Title: | I-Hotel Book Reading by author Karen Tei Yamashita | | Place: | 1010 HG |
| Recently named a National Book Award Finalist, I-HOTEL has been described as “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 as it played out in San Francisco’s Chinatown from 1968-1977. Divided into ten novellas, one for each year, I-HOTEL follows a motley cast of students, laborers, artists, revolutionaries, and provocateurs make their way through the history of the day. By the time unite to save the International Hotel—epicenter of the Yellow Power movement—their stories have come to define the very heart of the American experience.” Author of several novels including CIRCLE K CYCLES (2001), TROPIC OF ORANGE (1997), BRAZIL-MARU (1992), and THROUGH THE ARC OF THE RAIN FOREST (1990), Yamashita’s work contains elements of magical realism and chronicles multicultural communities in our increasingly globalized world.
This event is blogged at: http://blogs.uci.edu/asianamericanstudies/
Co-sponsored by the Departments of Asian American Studies, Comparative Literature and Women's Studie, the Program in Visual Studies and the Creative Writing Program
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