Hisaye yamamoto biography books

Hisaye Yamamoto (born 1921) wrote numerous short stories about her experiences in an internment camp during World War II and about the generation gap between Japanese immigrants and their children, winning recognition from the Association for Asian American Studies for her collection,Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories.

Yamamoto's work has been anthologized in numerous publications.

Known primarily for her story, "Seventeen Syllables," which reveals the tension between first–generation Japanese immigrants and their Americanized children, Yamamoto focused her work on the life and struggles of Japanese Americans.

Her central themes covered her experiences as a prisoner in an American internment camp during World War II, anti–Japanese prejudice, the anguish of arranged and loveless marriages, and the repression many Japanese women felt. Many of her early short stories were published in various annual editions of Best American Short Stories, and the 1988