2019
DOI: 10.24193/subbphilo.2019.1.04
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“We Stopped Dreaming”: Julie Otsuka’s (Un)told Stories of Picture Brides

Abstract: “We Stopped Dreaming”: Julie Otsuka’s (Un)Told Stories of Picture Brides. Focusing on Julie Otsuka’s acclaimed 2011 novel, The Buddha in the Attic, this paper will investigate the picture bride phenomenon as a multilayered trade of lives, identities, emotions and expectations, drawing a vivid picture of the protagonists’ subjection to exploitation, abuse, discrimination and deceit. REZUMAT. ”Am încetat să visăm”: Julie Otsuka și poveștile (ne)spuse ale mireselor prin corespondență. Pornind de la elogiatul roma… Show more

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