- Toshio Mori
Toshio Mori (1910 – 1980) was born in
Oakland, California and grew up inSan Leandro . DuringWorld War II , he and his family were interned atTopaz War Relocation Center inUtah , where Mori edited the journal "Trek" for a year. After the war, Mori returned to the Bay Area where he continued to write. He is the author of "Yokohama, California " (1949), "The Chauvinist and Other Stories " (1979), and "The Woman from Hiroshima " (1980).Bibliography
Primary sources
*Mori, Toshio. “He Who Has the Laughing Face” "New Directions in Prose & Poetry". Ed. James Laughlin. Middlebury, VT, Otter Valley Press, 1938.
*"Yokohama, California", ID: The Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1949. Intro. byWilliam Saroyan .
*“Tomorrow is Coming, Children” Trek. Eds. Jim Yamada, Taro Katayama, and Marii Kyogoku. Topaz Internment Camp, Utah. 1.1 and 1.2 (Christmas 1942/1943): 13-16.
*“The Woman Who Makes Swell Doughnuts.” "Aiiieeeee! Anthology of Asian-American Writers". Ed.Lawson Fusao Inada . Washington D.C., 1974. 123.
*"Woman from Hiroshima". San Jose, CA: Isthmus Press, 1979.
*"The Chauvinist and Other Stories". Los Angeles: Asian American Studies Center of University of California, Los Angeles, 1979.
*"Yokohama, California". 2nd ed., Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1985. New intro. byLawson Fusao Inada .
*“Japanese Hamlet.” "Imagining America: stories from the promised land". Ed. by Wesley Brown & Amy Ling. New York : Persea Books, 1991. 125-127.
*“The Chauvinist.” "Charlie Chan is dead: an anthology of contemporary Asian American Fiction". Ed. byJessica Hagedorn . New York, N.Y: Penguin Books, 1993. 328-337.
*“Through Anger and Love.” "Growing up Asian American, An Anthology". Ed. by Maria Hong. New York: W. Morrow, 1993. 53-64.Unpublished Novels
*Mori, Toshio. Send These the Homeless (written in Topaz camp in 1942)
*The Brothers Murata (original title “Peace Be Still” completed 1944)
*Way of Life (written during the 1960s).econdary Sources
*Barnhart, Sarah Catlin. “Toshio Mori (1910-1980)” "Asian American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook". Ed. Emmanuel S. Nelson. Westport, CT: Greenwood; 2000. 234-39
*Bedrosian, Margaret. “Toshio Mori’s California Koans.” "MELUS": 15.2 (1988): 47-55.
*Hassell, Malve von. Ethnography, Storytelling and the Fiction of Toshio Mori. "Dialectical Anthropology", 1994; 19.4: 401-18.
*Palomino, Harue. Japanese Americans in Books or in Reality? Three Writers for Young Adults Who Tell a Different Story. “How Much Truth Do We Tell the Children? The Politics of Children's Literature.” Ed. Betty Bacon. Minneapolis: Marxist Educational Press; 1988. 257.
*Mayer, David R. “Akegarasu and Emerson: Kindred Spirits of Toshio Mori’s “The Seventh Street Philosopher.” "Amerasia Journal", 1990; 16.2: 1-10.
*The Philosopher in Search of a Voice: Toshio Mori’s Japanese-Influenced Narrator. "AALA Journal", 1995; 2: 12-24.
*“The Short Stories of Toshio Mori.” "Fu Jen Studies: Literature and Linguistics", 1988; 21: 73-87.
*“Toshio Mori and Loneliness.” "Nanzan Review of American Studies" 15 (1993): 20-32.
*“Toshio Mori’s Neighborhood Settings: Inner and Outer Oakland.” "Fu Jen Studies: Literature and Linguistics", 1990; 23: 100-115.
*“Toshio Mori's '1936': A True and a False Prophecy.” "Academia: Bungaku Gogaku Hen/Literature and Language", 1999 Sept; 67: 69-81.
*“Can't See the Forest: Buddhism in Toshio Mori's 'The Trees.” "Academia: Bungaku Gogaku Hen/Literature and Language", 2002 Jan; 71: 125-36.
*Palumbo Liu, David. “Universalisms and Minority Culture.” "Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies" 7.1 (1995): 188-208.
*Sato, Gayle K. “(Self) Indulgent Listening: Reading Cultural Difference in Yokohama, California.” "Japanese Journal of American Studies", 2000; 11: 129-46.
*Sledge, Linda Ching. “Reviewed Work(s): The Chauvinist and Other Stories by Toshio Mori.” "MELUS" 7.1 (Spring 1980): 86-90.
*Wakida, Patricia. “Unfinished Message” Selected Works of Toshio Mori. "The Review of Arts, Literature, Philosophy and the Humanities (RALPH)". Volume XXIV.2 (Spring, 2001).
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