“Double-telling” is a term that was coined by UCLA professor King-Kok Cheung. Double-telling is when a writer includes a secondary story behind a surface, or manifest story. This technique is used in Hisaye Yamamoto’s “Seventeen Syllables.” On the surface it is a story of a woman that writes haikus, and her husband who does not approve of this activity. On the secondary level, “Seventeen Syllables” is about the pent up frustration of a woman who feels that her life has been ruined by her marriage, and a man who feels he has been emasculated.
-Max Latman
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment