Turning Japanese : memoirs of a sansei / David Mura

By:

Mura, David [author]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Anchor Books, 1992Edition: First Anchor Books editionDescription: 376 pagesContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0385423446

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Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Book	Sta. Lucia Branch Reference Section	Circulation	C 92 M972t 1992 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	133153d

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.

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