Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers
First edition | |
| Author | Lois-Ann Yamanaka |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Fritz Metsch |
| Language | English-Hawaiian Pidgin |
| Genre | Japanese Americans-Hawaii-Fiction |
| Publisher | Farrar Straus, New York; HarperCollins, Canada |
Publication date | 1996 |
| Publication place | United States and Canada (simultaneously) |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 276 pp |
| ISBN | 0-374-29020-2 (hardcover 1st edition) |
| OCLC | 32431468 |
| 813/.54 20 | |
| LC Class | PS3575.A434 W55 1996 |
| Preceded by | Saturday Night at the Pahala Theatre: A book of Poems written in Hawaiian Pidgin (1993) |
| Followed by | Blu's Hanging (1997) |
Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers is a Japanese American-Hawaiian adult fiction novel by Lois-Ann Yamanaka. Its tonality is distinctive to that of a local Hawaiian culture in that all the main characters speak in Hawaiian Pidgin. Although it is an adult fiction novel, the plot follows a young Japanese girl throughout her years in middle school. The major themes of the novel include comparing a mother-daughter relationship with a father-daughter one, finding one's identity, and the politics of Japanese Hawaiian culture in a white America.
Sections of the novel were adapted for the award-winning film, Fishbowl (2005), by Hawaii filmmaker Kayo Hatta, that aired nationally on PBS in 2006.