A01=Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi
Arizona
Author_Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi
avant-garde literature
California
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Desert literature
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Experimental fiction
experimental storytelling
experimental writing
Family fiction
FANTAsy
FC2
fiction
fiction collective 2
Flash fiction
Humor writing
Innovative fiction
Insects
Intersectionality
Japanese internment
Magical creatures
Magical realism
Multiple dimensions of identity
Novel
Relocation
Speculative fiction
Unique embodiment
Product details
- ISBN 9781573661843
- Weight: 400g
- Dimensions: 139 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 03 Mar 2020
- Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Winner of FC2's Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize
A novel about two teenage lovers who disrupt a World War II internment camp in Arizona.
Kane Araki and Margaret Morri are not only the names of teenage lovers living in a World War II Japanese relocation camp. Kane Araki is also the name of a man who, mysteriously, sprouts a pair of black raven's wings overnight. Margaret Morri is the name of the aging healer who treats embarrassing conditions (smelly feet and excessive flatulence). It's also the name of an eleven-year-old girl who communes with the devil, trading human teeth for divine wishes.
In The Book of Kane and Margaret, dozens of Kane Arakis and Margaret Morris populate the Canal and Butte camp divisions in Gila River. Amidst their daily rituals and family dramas, they find ways to stage quiet revolutions against a domestic colonial experience. Some internees slip through barbed wire fences to meet for love affairs. Others attempt to smuggle whiskey, pornography, birds, dogs, horses, and unearthly insects into their family barracks. And another seeks a way to submerge the internment camp in Pacific seawater.
A novel about two teenage lovers who disrupt a World War II internment camp in Arizona.
Kane Araki and Margaret Morri are not only the names of teenage lovers living in a World War II Japanese relocation camp. Kane Araki is also the name of a man who, mysteriously, sprouts a pair of black raven's wings overnight. Margaret Morri is the name of the aging healer who treats embarrassing conditions (smelly feet and excessive flatulence). It's also the name of an eleven-year-old girl who communes with the devil, trading human teeth for divine wishes.
In The Book of Kane and Margaret, dozens of Kane Arakis and Margaret Morris populate the Canal and Butte camp divisions in Gila River. Amidst their daily rituals and family dramas, they find ways to stage quiet revolutions against a domestic colonial experience. Some internees slip through barbed wire fences to meet for love affairs. Others attempt to smuggle whiskey, pornography, birds, dogs, horses, and unearthly insects into their family barracks. And another seeks a way to submerge the internment camp in Pacific seawater.
Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi writes dreampop speculative fictions that can be enjoyed on a bus ride or in line for coffee. All his best stories have something to do with talking insects. He is author of Disintegration Made Plain and Easy.
