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Milton Murayama (born April 10, 1923, Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii) is an American Nisei novelist and playwright. His first novel, ''All I Asking for Is My Body'' (1975) is considered a classic novel of the experiences of Japanese Americans in Hawaii before and during World War II. ==Biography== Murayama was born in Maui, Hawaii to Japanese immigrant parents from Kyushu. When he was about 12, his family moved to a sugar plantation camp at Pu'ukoli'i. (This was a company town of several hundred workers and their families that no longer exists.) Murayama's experiences there provided the material for his novels. After graduating from high school in Lahaina in 1941, he attended the University of Hawaiʻi. He served in the Territorial Guard after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, but was abruptly discharged with other Japanese Americans. He soon after volunteered with Military Intelligence. As a native speaker of Japanese, he was sent to Taiwan as a translator to help facilitate the surrender and repatriation of Japanese troops there. He returned to Hawaii in 1946 and completed his B.A. in English and philosophy at the University of Hawai'i that year. He then attended Columbia University under the G.I. Bill, earning a master's degree in Chinese and Japanese in 1950. After completing his postgraduate work at Columbia, Murayama moved to Washington, D.C., where he worked at the Armed Forces Medical Library from 1952 to 1956, before moving to San Francisco.〔 While still at Columbia, he completed the first draft of his first novel, ''All I Asking for Is My Body''. A story ("I'll Crack Your Head Kotsun") that became the first chapter of the novel was published in the ''Arizona Quarterly'' in 1959. It was reprinted in 1968 in ''The Spell of Hawaii'', an Hawaii literary anthology. ''All I Asking for'' was not particularly well received when it was first published in 1975, but it won the American Book Award of the Before Columbus Foundation in 1980,〔 and when it was reissued by the University of Hawaiʻi in 1988 it received critical acclaim. Murayama received the Hawai'i Award for Literature in 1991.〔 It has remained in print ever since, and has become a cult classic. The novel, including the title, is written in modified Pidgin and is considered dialectically authentic while still readable by non-Pidgin readers.〔''Choice'' magazine review blurb, from University of Hawai'i Press edition〕 His second novel, ''Five Years on a Rock'' (1994) is a ''prequel'' to the first novel; it covers the years 1914 to 1935, while ''All I Asking for'' goes from 1935 to 1943. Both novels relate the experiences of the family of Oyama Isao and his wife Ito Sawa, immigrants to Hawaii from Japan, and their many children, including sons Toshio and Kiyoshi. Much of the dialog is in the creole used by the Japanese-Hawaiians of the author's acquaintance. The novels seem to be fictionalized autobiography. The chronologically earlier novel is told from the point of view of Ito Sawa, and the later one from that of her son Kiyoshi. A third novel in the series, ''Plantation Boy'', was published in 1998. Toshio (Steve) is the narrator. Like the first two novels, it was published by the University of Hawaiʻi Press. A fourth novel, ''Dying in a Strange Land,'' was published by the University of Hawaiʻi Press in 2008. The character Toshio is based largely on Milton Murayama's brother, Edwin Murayama. His life story of a plantation-boxer-turned-architect forms the basis of "All I Asking For Is My Body" and "Plantation Boy." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Milton Murayama」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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