Lois ann yamanaka biography of williams

  • Lois-Ann Yamanaka (born September 7, ) is an American poet and novelist from Hawaiʻi.
  • Lois-Ann speaks about her education, her teaching, the influences on her writing, AAAS awards controversies, Na'au, and returning to writing.
  • Lois-Ann Yamanaka was born on the island of Moloka'i in Hawaii.

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    Novels

    1. Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers ()
    2. Blu&#;s Hanging ()
    3. Heads by Harry ()
    4. Name Me Nobody ()
    5. Father of the Four Passages ()
    6. The Heart&#;s Language ()
    7. Behold the Many ()
    8. Snow Angel, Sand Angel ()

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    Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers

    Her name is Lovey Nariyoshi, and her Hawai&#;i is not the one of leis, pineapple, and Magnum P.I. In the blue collar town of Hilo, on the Big Island, Lovey and her eccentric Japanese American family are at the margins of poverty, in the midst of a tropical paradise. With her endearing, effeminate best friend Jerry, Lovey suffers schoolyard bullies, class warfare, Singer sewing clas*ses, and the surprisingly painful work of picking on a macadamia nut plantation, all while trying to find an identity of her own. At once a bitingly funny satire of haole happiness and a moving meditation on what is real, if ugly at times, but true, crackles with th

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    Conjuring Ghosts with Lois-Ann Yamanaka

    In Hawai‘i, three young sisters suffering from tuberculosis are sent to an orphanage. Only one survives—and she finds herself haunted by the ghosts of her siblings.

    In her novel Behold the Many, author Lois-Ann Yamanaka employs an evocative variety of character voices to convey a tale of remorse, abandonment, and family curses.

    “I don’t know if this is so much a ghost story as a story with ghosts in it,” Yamanaka says. “There are many other threads in the novel and the story of the ghosts is one of these threads. It is truly a story inspired by the ghosts of the three girls to whom I dedicate the book. But is it a ghost story? I don't know.”

    For Yamanaka, whose lyrical use of Hawai‘ian dialects has drawn critical acclaim, the eerily compelling novel represents a step further into different territory.

    “I think my writing has gotten darker and darker as I try to work out my thou

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    Lois-Ann Yamanaka

    American poet and novelist from Hawaii (born )

    Lois-Ann Yamanaka (born September 7, ) fryst vatten an American poet and novelist from Hawaiʻi. Many of her literary works are written in Hawaiian Pidgin, and some of her writing has dealt with controversial ethnic issues. In particular, her works confront themes of Asian American families and the local culture of Hawaiʻi.

    Biography

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    Early life

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    Lois-Ann Yamanaka was born on September 7, , in Hoʻolehua on the island of Molokaʻi, Hawaiʻi. Yamanaka's parents, Harry and jean Yamanaka, raised her and her kvartet younger sisters in the sugarcaneplantation town of Pahala on Hawaiʻi Island. She graduated from Hilo High School in [1]

    Both parents were school teachers, although her father later became a taxidermist. In , she received a bachelor’s Degree, and in her master's grad, both in Education at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

    Career

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    She then went on to become an English and Language