an examination of the asian american identity focusing on the japanese in the united states of america in john okada’s no-no boy.
SHYAMA RAMSAMY,
Published in International Journal of Advanced Research in Literature and Education
ISSN: 2348-2346 Impact Factor:1.9 Volume:1 Issue:2 Year: 08 May,2014 Pages:27-26
Abstract
From the primitive time, Man has been moving from one place to another in search of food in the figure of nomads. The need to cater for their basic needs urged them to explore new terrains for their survival. As such, the process of Nomadism witnessed a twist throughout ages as it ultimately metamorphoses into the phenomenon of mass immigration across the global village. Countries like the United Kingdom, India, France, Italy, Mauritius the United States of American among others were not spared by the tentacles of the immigration which has an inevitable heavy bearing upon the World History. Urged by heteroglossic reasons like politics, warfare, economy, education, employment and better prospects like the others, the Japanese also found the USA as the ‘land of Fortune’ to secure their hazy future in their motherland. Immigration irrevocably carries the two faces of the same coin as it does not solely bring in benefits to the immigrants but is also accompanied by the harmful effects which scar a whole communal psyche.
Kewords
nomadism, immigration, communal psyche
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