Nurse (short story)
Creators: Masaharu Hane
Short story by Masaharu Hane centering on an Issei man on a train in the Southwest during World War II. Spotting a Nisei young woman fellow passenger—one of the few "Japanese" on the train—sitting next to a white soldier, the narrator passes time on the trip by conjuring various unlikely scenarios that explain her travel circumstances, before learning the rather mundane truth. Originally published in a Poston Japanese language literary publication, "Nurse" was included in the 1991 literary anthology The Big Aiiieeeee!
Might also like " Death Rides the Rails to Poston " by Hisaye Yamamoto; " The Travelers " by Toshio Mori; " The Summer of '43 " by Noboru Endow
Footnotes
| Author | Masaharu Hane |
|---|---|
| Publication Date | ca 1945 |
For More Information
Hane, Masaharu. "Nurse." Translated by George Kushida. In The Big Aiiieeeee!: An Anthology of Chinese American and Japanese American Literature , edited by Jeffery Paul Chan, Frank Chin, Lawson Fusao Inada, and Shawn Wong (New York: Meridian, 1991): 466–69.