Karen Tei Yamashita's novel involves a landscape which physically shifts along with the people attached to it, influencing and being influenced by their migration. The plot rapidly deepens like a /5(). Irreverently juggling magical realism, film noir, hip hop, and chicanismo, Tropic of Orange takes place in a Los Angeles where the homeless, gangsters, infant organ entrepreneurs, and Hollywood collide on a stretch of the Harbor Freeway. Hemmed in by wildfires, it’s a symphony conducted from an overpass, grandiose, comic, and as diverse as the city itself—from an author who has received the California /5(). Tropic of Orange is a magical realism novel by Japanese American writer Karen Tei Yamashita. Taking place primarily in Los Angeles, the novel begins on the longest day of the year and spans the course of a week; it covers a magical event that begins in Mexico on the Tropic of Cancer and spreads north to Los Angeles.
Tropic of Orange: A Novel Summary Study Guide. Karen Tei Yamashita. This Study Guide consists of approximately 40 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Tropic of Orange. Print Word PDF. This section contains words. This chapter observes Tropic of Orange complicating Asian American fictional interethnicity on a transnational scale. Set in a region that extends from the Tropic of Cancer across the U.S.‐Mexico border to Los Angeles, the novel is a magical allegory of the mass migration of peoples of the Southern Hemisphere to the North. In a plot that brings a cast of thousands into comic and disastrous. Karen Tei Yamashita is the author of Through the Arc of the Rain Forest, Brazil-Maru, Tropic of Orange, Circle K Cycles, I Hotel, and Anime Wong, all published by Coffee House Press.
Karen Tei Yamashita is the author of Letters to Memory, Through the Arc of the Rain Forest, Brazil-Maru, Tropic of Orange, Circle K Cycles, I Hotel, and Anime Wong, all published by Coffee House Press. Tropic of Orange is a magical realism novel by Japanese American writer Karen Tei Yamashita. Taking place primarily in Los Angeles, the novel begins on the longest day of the year and spans the course of a week; it covers a magical event that begins in Mexico on the Tropic of Cancer and spreads north to Los Angeles. Tropic of Orange. Karen Tei Yamashita. Tropic of Orange Karen Tei Yamashita. page comprehensive study guide; Chapter-by-chapter summaries and multiple sections of.
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