Plantation Boy

ISBN: 082482007X

Author: Murayama, Milton

Condition: New

No other writer has attempted such a broad view of the nisei experience in Hawaii as Milton Murayama.In Plantation Boy, the third novel in a planned tetralogy that includes the highly popular All I Asking for Is My Body and Five Years on a Rock, eldest son Toshio narrates the continuing story of the Oyama family.Outspoken, proud, determined, passionate: Tosh is the voice of the rebel that authority seeks to silence; he is the proverbial "protruding nail" that Japanese tradition seeks to flatten. His fight is against not only his familys poverty and the environment that keeps them oppressed, but also his own plantation-boy mentality.His struggles are set against the cataclysmic events of World War II-the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the internment of Japanese Americans, the heroism of the 100th and 442nd in Europe, the atrocities committed by the Japanese army in Asia-and the social and political upheavals in Hawaii.Here is a powerful work about Japanese in Hawaii that shows us more than stereotypes. By illuminating Toshs life, Murayama evokes a family and a community and, brilliantly, a critical vision of culture, of language, and of history itself.