Written by Zeami, Hanjo, or “Lady Han,” is a play which “resembles an old love ballad with a haunting tune” (108). Tyler's version is dated 1543, almost a century after Zeami died, which also means the text represented here may be different from Zeami's original. There is also a great amount of honzetsu and honkadori, or borrowing phrases from other prose texts and poems (respectively), not only from the older classics such as Kokinshū or Genji Monogatari, but there are also Chinese references in this particular play as well. I think this play is quite different from most of the other nō plays we have read so far.
Hanjo is about Hanago's extreme love for the Yoshida Minor Captain, which ultimately costs her job at the Nogami Inn as an entertainer. Shortly afterward, the Yoshida Minor Captain appears in Nogami and asks his attendants to ask around for Hanago, who is nicknamed Lady Han, but is unable to locate her due to her being dismissed just prior. He then proceeds to a shrine to pray for their reunion, after which she soon arrives to pray for the same thing. A Gentleman (who is presumably part of Yoshida's party) then sees her as a madwoman and asks her to entertain them, to which she showcases her love for Yoshida, gives a background on the famed Lady Han, professes the importance of the fan she holds which she received from Yoshida, and laments the unfaithfulness of Yoshida due to his inability to keep to his promise of returning during the following year's Autumn—the play is set during the Autumn and a year since their first meeting. Yoshida, noticing the fan, gets the Gentleman to allow Yoshida to view the fan, which Hanago first refuses, but with coaxing from Yoshida and the mention of his promise from that previous yea...
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...she was to him, but at the same time, I could not see how she could “moon over” (as the Madam puts it in kakekotoba style) his fan all day for an entire year and do nothing else. The resolution was also reminiscent of current Japanese dorama, which give us as the audience closure, but also leaves room for our own imagination to build a story after if we wish to choose to do so. I also found its allusions not only to “The Canon” but to other nō plays genius because of the new context the play seems to give The Canon, and the familiarity it can breed to those dedicated to nō as if they were different yet related songs on an album.
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Nisei Daughter, by Monica Sone. Even with all the mental anguish and struggle, an elemental instinct bound us to this soil. Here we were born; here we wanted to live. We tasted its freedom and learned of its brave hopes for democracy.
whole life changes in one night though, when Elsa is raped by a GI soldier, and
This frustration acted as a vehicle for her to gain a desire to be more
The understanding of the Pacific Islands literature is still a very confusing material for many scholars. Only the indigenous residents can interpret fully interpret their own cultural concept of writing. However, in the “My Urohs” which is a slim collection of poetry published by Emelihter Kihleng in May 2008 as her first collection of poem. It provided a new path for their own people to view themselves differently and add an important element in the Pacific Islander literature. Some of the basic informations about the author was that Emelihter is a Micronesian and more specifically Pohnpeian that was born in Guam and earned a master's degree in creative writing at the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 2003.
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...portant than anything and she did not let anyone or anything stop her from her main goal. This plays themes were based on love, passion, rage and vengeance.
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Scott, Clement. "Review of 'A Doll's House." The Theatre 14.79 (July 1889): 19-22. Rpt. in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Ed. Paula Kepos. Vol. 37. Detroit: Gale Research, 1991. Literature Resource Center. Web. 25 Mar. 2011.
The short story “I Stand Here Ironing”, by Tillie Olsen, is a first person narrative that includes the protagonist’s memory flashbacks, which give context to the current dialogue. The story reads like a journalistic interview of the Mother, or a one-sided telephone conversation, using a cadence reminiscent of an Irish Mother, both self deprecating and desperately defensive. A back and forth exchange, between a forced explanation of her daughter’s awkwardness and an attempt to justify her own responsibility for contributing to those character flaws. She vacillates between short bursts of intense regret and frustrated pleading.
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