Slanting I, Imagining We

Chapter 4

Collective Bodily Storytelling in Hiromi Goto's Chorus of Mushrooms and The Kappa Child

Larissa Lai

Emerging from activist and cultural gatherings in the 1980s and 1990s, Hiromi Goto's first two novels interrogate the relationship between language and racialized bodies. She enacts radical carnival narratives that transform the geographies from which they come and into which they are propelled.