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Authors: CRISTINA CHEVEREȘAN.
“We Stopped Dreaming”: Julie Otsuka’s (Un)Told Stories of Picture Brides. Focusing on Julie Otsuka’s acclaimed 2011 novel, The Buddha in the Attic, this paper will investigate the picture bride phenomenon as a multilayered trade of lives, identities, emotions and expectations, drawing a vivid picture of the protagonists’ subjection to exploitation, abuse, discrimination and deceit.
Keywords: American Dream, collective voice, immigration, Japanese, legislation, marriage, picture brides, socio-historical context.
