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Cynthia Kadohata

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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Cynthia Kadohata Information
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Cynthia Kadohata (born 1956 in Chicago, Illinois) is a Japanese American writer known for writing coming of age stories about Asian American women. She spent her early childhood in the South; both her first adult novel and first children's novel take...


News and Journals
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Kliatt
Kadohata, Cynthia. Weedflower.(Book review)(Young adult review)
09/01/2006: 447 words, approx. 2 pages
KADOHATA, Cynthia. Weedflower. Read by Kimberly Faar. 4 tapes. 6.33. Listening Library. 2006. 0-307-28580-4. $35.00. Vinyl; plot, author, reader notes. J* From the KLIATT starred review of the book, March 2006: "Kadohata follows up her Newbery Medal for Kira-Kira with another story from...
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Publishers Weekly
Cynthia Kadohata: her second novel envisions the decline - and very nearly the fall - of L.A. (PW Interviews)
08/03/1992: 2,196 words, approx. 7 pages
On the lanai of her Hollywood bungalow, Cynthia Kadohata sits with her legs curled under her body, periodically brushing her black hair away from her face. As she shyly responds to PW's questions about her work, her answers are like interior monologues - exploratory,...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Lisa See
2,195 words, approx. 7 pages
In the following summary of her interview with Kadohata, See provides details of the novelist's life, reports on her ambivalence towards being hailed as a new voice on the Asian American literary scene, and relates her approach to the writing process.
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Critical Review by Valerie Matsumoto
1,206 words, approx. 4 pages
In the following review, Matsumoto praises The Floating World emphasizing the novel's Japanese American elements.
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Critical Essay by A. Robert Lee
848 words, approx. 3 pages
In the following excerpt, Lee, after analyzing aspects of America's "obsession" with Asia and strains of anti-Asian sentiment pervading American society, discusses the Asian-American literary renaissance and its resultant controversies, and then provides a plot summary of Kadohata's A Floating World, focusing in particular on its Asian American elements.
 


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