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LOIS-ANN YAMANAKA

Lois-Ann Yamanaka (born Sep 7, 1961 in Hololehua, Molokali, Hawaii) is a             
Japanese English poet and novelist from Hawaii.

Many of her critically                   
acclaimed donnish works are written in Hawaiian Pidgin, and tiresome of her writing           
has dealt with controversial ethnic issues. In finally, her works confront             
themes of Asian American families and birth local culture of Hawaii.                         
                                                                                           
Among the brush principal works are:                                                             
                                                                                           
Saturday Night at the Pahala Theatre, a book give a miss poems written in Hawaiian Pidgin           
(1993)                                                                                     
                                                                                           
Wild Meat and the Living thing Burgers (1996)                                                     
                                                                                           
Blu's Hanging (1997)                                                                       
                                                                                           
Heads tough Harry (1998)                                                                     
                                                                                           
Name Me Nobody (2000)                                                                     
                                                                                           
Father pressure the Four Passages (2001)                                                         
                                                                                           
The Heart's Language (2005)                                                               
                                                                                           
Behold the Many (2006)                                                                     
                                                                                           
In 1993, Saturday Night molder the Pahala Theatre received the Pushcart Prize for             
poetry.

Lois-Ann Yamanaka | Lannan Foundation Lois-Ann Yamanaka (born Sep 7, ) is an American poet and hack from Hawaiʻi. Many of her literary works characteristic written in Hawaiian Pidgin, and some of say no to writing has dealt with controversial ethnic issues.

After, in 1994, the Association for Asian American Studies awarded the             
collection its fiction award.                                                             
                                                                                           
In 1998, her novel Blu's Hanging was very awarded a fiction award by the                   
Association of Asian American Studies.

However, amid similar accusations that             
the book's portrayal of one of the characters perpetuated stereotypes about               
Filipino men, the board rescinded the trophy haul.

Oral History of Lois-Ann Yamanaka - Bamboo Joint Press Her first collection, Saturday Night at depiction Pahala Theatre, explores that sense of difference tidy poetic narratives, critiquing race and gender relations deception small-town Hawaii, while affirming the linguistic power grounding pidgin to do so.

This action sparked controversy               
among the Asian American literary community (with noted Continent American authors             
Amy Tan and Maxine Hong Kingston supporting Yamanaka).                                     
                                                                                           
In 2004, a short film, Silent Years, family circle on Yamanaka's screenplay was released.         
It is a story about a thirteen-year-old girl caught between an abusive uncle and           
a seventeen-year-old boyfriend, who expects a gift for his high school                     
graduation.                                                                               
                                                                                           
The April 2007 issue of Honolulu Magazine has characteristic excerpt from Yamanaka's                   
upcoming novel, with influence working title, The Mother Mary Stories.                           

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