Category: Essays
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Of No-No Boy and No-No Boys: At the Seattle 2013 JANM Conference
Tamiko Nimura goes in search of the story of her story of the story of Japanese Americans, past, present and future.
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For a sister getting married: senbazuru (1000 cranes)
What do you give the beloved little sister who’s getting married, the one who’s been with her love for so long? What do you give the sister whose art is so gorgeous and so brave that you can’t believe she’s your sister? You give her…
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Interleavings: Serendipity and Auto/Biographical Process
I spent a good part of today searching for page numbers for footnotes in an essay I’m finishing up. The writing’s finished but my citations aren’t. No one’s fault but my own. Did I really think I would remember the page number to footnote 19…
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Interleavings: Serendipity and the Auto/Biographical Process
I found Dr. Remick’s name in a Little School folder. What was it doing there? It turns out that at the same time Dr. Remick was an affirmative action officer and attended that Women’s Studies meeting, she was the parent of a Little School pupil…
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Interleavings: Serendipity and the Auto/Biographical Process
Biographical and autobiographical writing entwine. Why did I choose to write about a woman I never met and had no ties to—except for my interest in Jewish women’s history and the field of Psychoanalysis? Immediately the writer’s self is injected into the story. Sometimes Dr.…
