![]() Moreover, a recurring effect of reading Yamashita is the effect of a reader perceiving that culture consists of cultures, produced through everyday living, and that geographical and political identifiers, such as national identity, consists of constructed, ir/real space and time. ![]() 4 Yamashita’s body of work shows an abiding commitment to representing her understanding of the complex transnational flows between and among geopolitical locations of history, power, identity in Asia and the Americas, and, most of all, the depiction of fictional characters whose lives can be thought of as mundane and yet beneath the surface are filled with vitality and courage. Her writing has been described as an example of Asian American literary avant-garde ( Ling 2012, p. Yamashita’s innovative storytelling is often satirical, parodic, erudite, and ultimately unbeholden to any single genre or literary aesthetic. 2, 3 However, Yamashita’s writing (novels, drama, short stories, essays) do exhibit recurring themes that are presented in various diegetic universes, nonlinear chronotopes, and manipulations of realist and nonrealist Western and Asian literary traditions. 1 Scholars of Yamashita’s corpus have noted that her fiction never significantly repeats plot or character if there is a diegetic Yoknapatawpha County in Yamashita’s fiction, it is global in scale, consisting of Asian America, the Americas, and Asia (particularly, Japan, China, Vietnam, the Philippines, Korea). ![]() Through the Arc of the Rain Forest ( Yamashita 2017a) is Karen Tei Yamashita’s first novel and the one for which her writing is most identified as “magic realist”.
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