Yone Noguchi’s Impersonation in “The American Diary of a Japanese Girl”

The first Japanese person known to write and publish an American novel, Yone Noguchi disguises as a Japanese female diarist to counter the orientalist representations of Japanese cultural and feminine images in early twentieth-century United States. His impersonation in “The American Diary of a Japa...

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Main Author:	Elaine Wong
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University) 2019-12-01
Series:	Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices
Subjects:	yone noguchi “the american diary of a japanese girl” impersonation americanjapanese cultural contact translingualism
Online Access:	http://journals.rudn.ru/polylinguality/article/viewFile/22558/17634

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Yone Noguchi’s Impersonation in “The American Diary of a Japanese Girl”

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