Bjoern Koeller
Bjoern Koeller vive en Wuppertal y estudia estudios ingleses y americanos, teología protestante y canto en la Universidad de Wuppertal y en el Conservatorio de Colonia/Wuppertal. El tema de los japoneses americanos lo abordó en el seminario con la Dra. Bettina Hofmann. En su tiempo libre le gusta jugar waterpolo e ir a la ópera.
Actualizado en octubre de 2010
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Toshio Mori's "The Trees"
13 de octubre de 2010 • Bjoern Koeller
I first came into contact with Toshio Mori’s works in the “Japanese Americans” seminar I attended this summer term at the University of Wuppertal. What I enjoyed most about Mori’s short stories was that they gave quite brief, but nonetheless vivid and fair, accounts of life in Japanese American society before WW II and during the Japanese internment. At that time, the first generation of Japanese immigrants, or Issei, and the second generation, or Nisei, lived predominantly in communities on …
