AS AM 5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Model Minority, David Henry Hwang, Edward Said
Document Summary
I am not your son and i am not japanese and i am not american . The story of ichiro trying to regain a sense of wholeness. Rebirth is layered in all sorts of ways - relationship to family, community, etc. Parts of self are warring with each other. The alienated self in the urban world. It presents a critique of war, and demonstrates the effects of war on ichiro"s community, his family and most important of all, his psyche. Ichiro is the typical modernist subject wandering an urban landscape, alienated, different parts of the self warring with each other, trying to reconcile into a whole. This implosion occurs through a very particular historical moment: the no-no boys. These no-no boys have become the embodiment of american life and what it looks like. Several larger thematic points in no name woman . Uses her aunt"s story to tell her life story.
