Harvest of Hawaii Plantation Pidgin: The Japanese Way

By Myra S Ikeda

A Harvest of Hawai'i Plantation Pidgin: The Japanese Way examines, from the perspective of language, the plantation experience of the issei and subsequent generations who came to Hawai'i (Tengoku) to work in the sugar fields. Hilo-born Myra Sachiko Ikeda, shows how the Japanese language spoken by the first workers became influenced by the need to communicate with other workers, and how pidgin, the common plantation language that had developed earlier among the Chinese, Portuguese, and Hawaiians to understand each other, quickly integrated Japanese words.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1939487587
• ISBN13: 9781939487582
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Mutual Publishing
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"