Wakako Yamauchi

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Wakako Yamauchi (born 1924) is a Nisei Asian American female writer. Her plays are considered pioneering works in Asian American theatre.Wakako Yamauchi was born in Westmorland, California. Her mother and father, both Issei, or first-generation immigrants from Japan, were farmers in California's Imperial Valley. Many of her stories and her two plays, And the Soul Shall Dance and The Music Lessons, are set in the same dusty, isolated settings. In 1942, Yamauchi and her family were interned at the concentration camp in Poston, Arizona. Her first play, And the Soul Shall Dance, adapted from her short story of the same title, was first performed at the East West Players in Los Angeles and won the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for best new play of 1977. It was produced for public television".

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