![]() That issue was recently raised in a copyright dispute between Penguin Classics and the original and current US publishers of No-No Boy, the 1956 novel by John Okada that describes a Japanese American community after the internment of WWII. Who owns an important novel after the author is dead? Copyright law ideally protects publishers, writers, and their heirs, but the law has limits -and loopholes. The publishing history of No-No Boy shows how writers shifted the narrative about internment and draft resistance. Eventually, because of their advocacy, the publishing and academic establishment did too. ![]() ![]() ![]() In this excerpt from John Okada: The Life and Rediscovered Work of the Author of No-No Boy, Shawn Wong describes how he and others quickly recognized the worth of Okada’s novel. ![]()
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