Turning Japanese: Memoirs of a Sansei
of David Mura
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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.
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- Format Paperback
- Pages 386 pages
- Publisher Grove Press
- Publication Date November 30th 2005
- First Publication 10/30/91
- Language English
- ISBN 9780802142399
- Edition Not informed
- Category History & Politics
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