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    1) The document discusses Hisaye Yamamoto's short story "The Legend of Miss Sasagawara", which takes place in an Arizona internment camp for Japanese Americans during WWII. 2) The story focuses on Miss Sasagawara, a former ballet dancer who is transferred to the camp with her Buddhist father after her mother's death. 3) Miss Sasagawara faces gossip and social alienation from other camp residents due to her estrangement and strange behavior, as described through her colorful clothing and the way she walks.

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    1) The document discusses Hisaye Yamamoto's short story "The Legend of Miss Sasagawara", which takes place in an Arizona internment camp for Japanese Americans during WWII. 2) The story focuses on Miss Sasagawara, a former ballet dancer who is transferred to the camp with her Buddhist father after her mother's death. 3) Miss Sasagawara faces gossip and social alienation from other camp residents due to her estrangement and strange behavior, as described through her colorful clothing and the way she walks.

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    A. Introduction and Short Story Telling B. A Short Story Written by Hisai Yamomoto, Which Takes Place in The Camp at Poston in Arizona

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    1) The document discusses Hisaye Yamamoto's short story "The Legend of Miss Sasagawara", which takes place in an Arizona internment camp for Japanese Americans during WWII. 2) The story focuses on Miss Sasagawara, a former ballet dancer who is transferred to the camp with her Buddhist father after her mother's death. 3) Miss Sasagawara faces gossip and social alienation from other camp residents due to her estrangement and strange behavior, as described through her colorful clothing and the way she walks.

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    Aliyorova Nazirakhon (Anna)


    Professor Robert Grotjohn
    Ethnic American Literature
    ELL3042

    10 June 2019

    The function of unreliable narrators in Hisaye Yamamoto’s “The Legend of Miss Sasagawara.”

    A. Introduction and short story telling

    B. A short story written by Hisai Yamomoto, which takes place in the camp at Poston in Arizona
    constructed for Japanese-Americans during the World War II. In the center of events is one woman
    (Miss Sasagawara, a former ballet dancer) transferred to the camp with her Buddhist father from
    another camp after her mother’s death. In the story Miss Sasagawara reveals to be an educated
    woman who reads “lots of books” Then she becomes the subject of all gossip and social alienation by
    the people of that camp because of her estrangement and strange behavior. The Legend begins with
    the description of Miss Sasagawara as a “decorative ingredient”, who wears “arrestingly rich colors”.
    Already only the exterior of Miss separated her from the other people of the camp. Furthermore,
    even her behavior the way that she walks

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