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Monica Sone
Born Kazuko Itoi
December 37, 1919 (1919-00-37) (age 89)
Seattle, Washington
Occupation novelist
Nationality USA
Notable work(s) Nisei Daughter (1953/1987)

Monica Sone (b. Kazuko Itoi, 1919 in Seattle, Washington) is a Japanese American novelist, best known for her 1953 autobiographical bildungsroman Nisei Daughter, which tells of the Japanese American experience in Seattle during the 1920s and 30s, and in the World War II internment camps and which is an important text in Asian American Studies courses.

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[edit] Biography

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[edit] Early life

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Sone grew up in Seattle's Skid Row, where her parents, immigrants from Japan, managed a hotel. Like many Japanese American children, her education included both American classes and extra, Japanese cultural courses. She had two brothers and one sister. She and her family visited Japan, where she realized how American she truly is. In her late teens, she contracted tuberculosis and spent nine months in a sanitarium.[1]

During the War, she and her family were interned in the camps at Puyallop Civilian Assembly Center and at the Minidoka War Relocation Center in Hunt, Idaho. In 1942, Sone was allowed to leave the camp to attend Wendell College in Indiana, where she spent time living with a white family.[2] She eventually received a degree in clinical psychology from Case Western University.[3]

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[edit] Nisei Daughter

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Sone's autobiography is widely taught in Asian American Studies courses both for its descriptions of Japanese American life before the war and of the internment experience, and for its controversial acceptance of American culture. A list of scholarly articles follows below.

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[edit] Marriage and children

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Sone and her husband, Geary Sone, had four children, whom they raised in Canton, Ohio.[4]

[edit] Death and afterward

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[edit] Published works

  • Nisei Daughter (Boston: Little Brown (or U of Washington P), 1953; reprint, Seattle: U of Washington P, 1987 (or 1979))

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[edit] References

  1. ^ NextText.com Biography (accessed March 2008)
  2. ^ in Nisei/Sansei: Shifting Japanese American Identities and Politics by Jere Takahashi, p.102 (accessed via Google Books, March 2008)
  3. ^ see NextText.com Biography
  4. ^ See NextText.com Biography

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[edit] Critical studies

as of March 2008:

  1. Monica Sone By: A. Robert Lee, IN: Madsen, Asian American Writers. Detroit: Gale; 2005. pp. 279-82
  2. Home, Memory, and Narrative in Monica Sone's Nisei Daughter By: Warren D. Hoffman, IN: Lawrence and Cheung, Recovered Legacies: Authority and Identity in Early Asian American Literature. Philadelphia: Temple UP; 2005. pp. 229-48
  3. Truth and Talent in Interpreting Ethnic American Autobiography: From White to Black and Beyond By: Kimberly Rae Connor, IN: Long, White Scholars/African American Texts. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP; 2005. pp. 209-22
  4. A Two-Headed Freak and a Bad Wife Search for Home: Border Crossing in Nisei Daughter and The Mixquiahuala Letters By: Janet Cooper, IN: Benito and Manzanas, Literature and Ethnicity in the Cultural Borderlands. Amsterdam: Rodopi; 2002. pp. 159-73
  5. Nisei Daughter by Monica Sone By: Traise Yamamoto, IN: Wong and Sumida, A Resource Guide to Asian American Literature. New York, NY: Modern Language Association of America; 2001. pp. 151-58
  6. Protest and Accommodation, Self-Satire and Self-Effacement, and Monica Sone's Nisei Daughter By: Stephen H. Sumida, IN: Payne, Multicultural Autobiography: American Lives. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P; 1992. pp. 207-47
  7. Japanese American Women's Life Stories: Maternality in Monica Sone's Nisei Daughter and Joy Kogawa's Obasan By: Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Feminist Studies, 1990 Summer; 16 (2): 288-312.

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