Turning Japanese - Memoirs of a Sansei

Zusammenfassung Award-winning poet David Mura's critically acclaimed memoir Turning Japanese chronicles how a year in Japan transformed his sense of self and pulled into sharp focus his complicated inheritance. Mura is a sansei! a third-generation Japanese-American who grew up on baseball and hot dogs in a Chicago suburb! where he heard more Yiddish than Japanese. Turning Japanese chronicles his quest for identity with honesty! intelligence! and poetic vision and it stands as a classic meditation on difference and assimilation and is a valuable window onto a country that has long fascinated our own. Turning Japanese was a New York Times Notable Book and winner of an Oakland PEN Josephine Miles Book Award. This edition includes a new afterword by the author.

Product details

• Authors: David Mura, David Mura, Professor of Creative Writing David (Hamline University) Mura
• Publisher: Grove/Atlantic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2006
• EAN: 9780802142399
• ISBN: 978-0-8021-4239-9
• Dimensions: 137 mm x 208 mm x 23 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Japan, Memoirs, c 2000 to c 2009, Relating to adulthood, CULTURAL HERITAGE / Asian / Japanese