Where the Body Meets Memory: An Odyssey of Race, Sexuality, and Identity - Hardcover

Mura, David

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ISBN 10: 0385471831 ISBN 13: 9780385471831

Verlag: Anchor Books, 1996

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Explores America's racial and sexual taboos, the consequences of assimilation, and the issues of raising chldren in a world that refuses to honor its racial diversity

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ning Japanese</i>, poet David Mura chronicled a year in Japan in which his sense of identity as a Japanese American was transformed. In <i>Where the Body Meets Memory</i>, Mura focuses on his experience growing up Japanese American in a country which interned both his parents during World War II, simply because of their race. Interweaving his own experience with that of his family and of other sansei-third generation Japanese Americans-Mura reveals how being a "model minority" has resulted in a loss of heritage and wholeness for generations of Japanese Americans.<br><br>In vivid and searingly honest prose, Mura goes on to suggest how the shame of internment affected his sense of sexuality, leading him to face troubling questions about desire and race: an interracial marriage, compulsive adultery, and an addiction to pornography which equates beauty with whiteness. Using his own experience as a measure of racial and sexual grief, Mura illustrates how the connections between rac

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• Verlag: Anchor Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0385471831
• ISBN 13: 9780385471831
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272
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