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Tag: Hisaye Yamamoto

The Eskimo Connection – Analysis

Posted on October 17, 2021October 17, 2021 by JL Admin

Hisaye Yamamoto’s “The Eskimo Connection” is told through the eyes of Emiko Toyama, a poet who self-deprecatingly refers to herself simply as “an aging Nisei widow” with very little to offer a young prison pen pal. She never directly calls herself a poet in the story, although art and writing have certainly played an important…

The Eskimo Connection – Themes

Posted on October 16, 2021October 16, 2021 by JL Admin

Loneliness  In “The Eskimo Connection” both Alden and Emiko are victims of loneliness, although in different ways. Emiko’s husband is dead, and she describes herself in terms of what she has lost: her husband and her poetry. As “an aging Nisei widow in Los Angeles with several children, three still at home, whose main avocation…

The Eskimo Connection – Summary

Posted on October 15, 2021October 15, 2021 by JL Admin

1975  “The Eskimo Connection” begins in the late winter of 1975, when Emiko Toyama, a Nisei poet and widow living in Los Angeles, receives a letter from a young Eskimo prisoner-patient at a federal penitentiary in the Midwest. Alden Ryan Walunga has read one of Emiko’s poems in an old AsianAmerican magazine and wants her…

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