Racism in Post-War America: Not a Matter of Black or White

6 de octubre de 2010 • Lara Mylord

During this summer term, I attended the course “Japanese Americans” at the University of Wuppertal in Germany. The overall aim of the course was to introduce us students to the literature of Japanese Americans in America now and then. In this article I would like to comment on one short story by Hisaye Yamamoto which I liked in particular: “Wilshire Bus” (in Seventeen Syllables and other Stories, 1988). In the aftermath of World War II, life in general was not …