Amy Yamada

Amy Yamada
山田　詠美
BornYamada Futaba (山田双葉)
(1959-02-02) February 2, 1959 (age 65)
Tokyo, Japan
Pen nameYamada Eimi (山田詠美)
OccupationNovelist, short-story writer, essayist
Notable works
  • Bedtime Eyes (1985)
  • Soul Music Lovers Only (1987)
  • Trash (1991)
  • Animal Logic (1996)
  • A2Z (2000)

Amy Yamada (山田 詠美, Yamada Eimi, born February 2, 1959) is a contemporary Japanese writer who is most famous for her stories that address issues of sexuality, racism, and interracial love and marriage.[1][2] Her debut and subsequent popular success in the 1990s was a part of Japan's hip-hop and Black culture boom.[3][4] While she is most known for her stories of complicated and messy romantic love, she also writes on the daily minutiae of life (slice-of-life), child-raising, and bullying.

  1. ^ Kelsky, Karen (1996). "Flirting with the Foreign: Interracial sex in Japan's "International Age"". In Wilson, Rob (ed.). Global Local: cultural production and the transnational imaginary. North Carolina, United States: Duke University Press. pp. 173–192. ISBN 0822317125.
  2. ^ Marling, William H. (2006). How "American" Is Globalization?. Maryland, United States: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 98. ISBN 0-8018-8353-9.
  3. ^ Kelsky, Karen (1996-05-27), "Flirting with the Foreign", Global/Local, Duke University Press, pp. 173–192, doi:10.1215/9780822381990-008, ISBN 9780822381990
  4. ^ Russell, John (2012-06-01), "Race and Reflexivity", Rereading Cultural Anthropology, Duke University Press, pp. 296–318, doi:10.1215/9780822397861-017, ISBN 9780822397861