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No More Cherry Blossoms: Sisters Matsumoto and Other Plays
Philip Kan Gotanda
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Description for No More Cherry Blossoms: Sisters Matsumoto and Other Plays
Paperback. Presents new work by the leading Japanese American playwright working today. Series: Naomi B. Pascal Editor's Endowment. Num Pages: 288 pages, 15 illus. BIC Classification: 1F; 1K; AN; DD; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 142 x 18. Weight in Grams: 436.
In these four new plays, renowned playwright Philip Kan Gotanda explores the choices and challenges Japanese American women face. Although set in different decades of the twentieth century, the playsare all absolutely modern in the human struggles they depict.
"Sisters Matsumoto" tells of three Japanese American sisters who return to their family farm in Stockton, California, after living in an internment camp during World War II. "The Wind Cries Mary" is a gripping drama set in the tumultuous heyday of social upheaval that was San Francisco in 1968, when California's Asian American intellectuals were first finding a political voice. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
Naomi B. Pascal Editor's Endowment
Number of Pages
293
Place of Publication
Seattle, United States
ISBN
9780295985015
SKU
V9780295985015
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Philip Kan Gotanda
Philip Kan Gotanda is a widely produced playwright and respected independent filmmaker. The author of Fish Head Soup and Other Plays, he has received numerous honors and awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, four Rockefeller Playwriting Awards, three awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, and a TCG-PEW National Theater Arts Award. He lives in San Francisco.
Reviews for No More Cherry Blossoms: Sisters Matsumoto and Other Plays
"Philip Gotanda is a polemicist who sees both sides of a question, a writer whose grievances are balanced with a wicked sense of humor."
Frank Rich, New York Times
Frank Rich, New York Times