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Picture Bride Stories de Barbara F Kawakami

Picture Bride Stories

Autor Barbara F Kawakami
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 iun 2016
Duringthe1885to1924immigrationperiodofplantationlaborersfromJapantoHawaii,morethan200,000Japanese,mostlysinglemen,madethelongjourneybyshiptotheHawaiianIslands.AsitbecameapparentthattheywouldneverreturntoJapan,manyofthemensentforbridestojointhemintheiradoptedhome.Morethan20,000ofthesepicturebridesimmigratedfromJapanandOkinawatoHawaiitomarryhusbandswhomtheyknewonlythroughphotographsexchangedbetweenthemortheirfamilies.
BasedonBarbaraKawakami'sfirst-handinterviewswithsixteenofthesewomen,PictureBrideStoriesisapoignantcollectionthatrecountsthediversecircumstancesthatledthemtomarrystrangers,theirvoyagestoHawaii,thesurprisesandtrialsthattheyencountereduponarriving,andthelivestheyleduponsettlinginastrangenewland.Manyfoundhardship,yetperseveredandenduredthedifficultconditionsofthesugarcaneandpineappleplantationsforthesakeoftheirchildren.Astheyacclimatedtoaforeignplaceandforgednewrelationships,theyovercamechallengesandeventuallyprosperedinabetterlife.Thestoriesoftheisseiwomenexemplifytheimportanceoffriendshipsandfamilialnetworksincopingwithpovertyandeconomicsecurity.Althoughtheseremarkablewomenaregone,theirlegacylivesonintheirchildren,grandchildren,andsucceedinggenerations.
Inadditiontotheoralhistories--theresultoffortyyearsofinterviews--theauthorprovidessubstantialbackgroundonmarriagecustomsandlaborpracticesontheplantations.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780824866242
ISBN-10: 082486624X
Pagini: 328
Dimensiuni: 182 x 261 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.89 kg
Editura: University of Hawaii Press

Notă biografică

Barbara F. Kawakami (née Oyama) was born in Japan in 1921 and immigrated to Hawaii with her family when she was three months old. She learned to sew at a young age, and for thirty-eight years was a dressmaker--a profession she continued after marriage while raising a family of three children. At age fifty-three, she entered college and earned a BS in fashion design and merchandising, and later an MA in Asian studies. Ms. Kawakami has been a researcher, writer, and consultant for a number of projects, including the film Picture Bride, released by Miramax Pictures in 1994. Her award-winning book, Japanese Immigrant Clothing in Hawaii 1885-1941, was published in 1993.