http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/nisei Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:29:04 -0400 Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:29:04 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/13/a-contrast-of-issei-and-nisei-as-illustrated-by-king-kok-cheung-hisaye-yamamoto-and-emiko-okori By Scott Berghegger - Hisaye Yamamoto’s double-telling stories, according to King-kok Cheung, convey “two tales in the guise of one,” one woven from the explicit words of the narrator, the other from the softened and sometimes pointedly silent characters that surround the narrator (Cheung, 29). However, Yamamoto’s double-tailed method not only exhibits the muted voices of the Issei, but the dichotomies of these immigrant-internees’ lives in America, sharply divided across lines of gender, race, generation, and citizenship. The Issei had to raise their children in a “free prison,&... Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:37 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/13/a-contrast-of-issei-and-nisei-as-illustrated-by-king-kok-cheung-hisaye-yamamoto-and-emiko-okori