Bjoern Koeller
Bjoern Koeller mora em Wuppertal e estuda Estudos Ingleses e Americanos, Teologia Protestante e Canto na Universidade de Wuppertal e no Conservatório de Colônia/Wuppertal. Ele entrou em contato com o tema nipo-americanos no seminário com a Dra. Bettina Hofmann. Nas horas vagas gosta de jogar pólo aquático e ir à ópera.
Atualizado em outubro de 2010
Stories from This Author
Toshio Mori's "The Trees"
13 de Outubro 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 …
