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Journal Article
T.C. Boyle's \East Is East\: A Samurai in Georgia, or the Failure of Intercultural Understanding
2012
Overview
The article shows that T.C. Boyle's novel East Is East (1990) is based on a 'real' incident and mixes fact and fiction in Boyle's idiosyncratic manner. It then demonstrates how artfully the many-faceted story combines the traditional plotlines of the innocent youth on a search for a better world and the lonely son on a quest for his lost father with the satiric thrust of a Künstlerroman and how it connects these narrative strands by means of a tightly woven net of both direct and implied allusions to many facets of American culture on the one hand and major aspects of the Japanese samurai tradition on the other, thus allowing for diverse variations of the chances and pitfalls of intercultural negotiation. The unusual combination of these narrative strands and the constantly alternating points of view enable the reader to see the events from contrasted perspectives. And Boyle's linguistic mastery or what he once called \"the mad, language-obsessed part of me\" allows him to accomplish the seemingly impossible task of conveying a depressing truth in a hilarious way and to embed his harsh critique of American parochialism and racism and his plea for an unprejudiced attitude towards 'Others' in a fast-paced, entertaining and captivating tale.
