![]() ![]() ![]() Yamada answered "no" twice in a compulsory government questionnaire as to whether he would serve in the armed forces and swear loyalty to the United States. No-No Boy tells the story of Ichiro Yamada, a fictional version of the real-life "no-no boys". It was not until the mid-1970s that a new generation of Japanese American writers and scholars recognized the novel's importance and popularized it as one of literature's most powerful testaments to the Asian American experience. ![]() First published in 1956, No-No Boy was virtually ignored by a public eager to put World War II and the Japanese internment behind them. ![]()
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