Transpacific Convergences Alyssa Aleksanian She explores the lives and

She explores the lives and letters of clever apprentices

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a Poetry Book Society Recommendation short listed for the Forward Prize in 1999

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Transpacific Convergences Alyssa Aleksanian She explores the lives andDespite the rise of the Hollywood system and hostility to Asian migrant communities in the early twentieth century United States, Japanese Americans created a thriving cinema culture that produced films and established theaters and exhibition companies to facilitate their circulation between Japan and the United States. Drawing from a fascinating multilingual archive including the films themselves, movie industry trade press, Japanese American