Format:
Online-Ressource (xxxiv, 182 p)
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ill
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0813542987
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9780813542980
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9780813542973
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0813542979
Series Statement:
Multi-ethnic literatures of the Americas
Content:
Originally published in 1932, Kathleen Tamagawa's pioneering Asian American memoir is a sensitive and thoughtful look at the personal and social complexities of growing up racially mixed during the early twentieth century. Born in 1893 to an Irish American mother and a Japanese father and raised in Chicago and Japan, Tamagawa reflects on the difficulty she experienced fitting into either parent's native culture. She describes how, in America, her every
Content:
Originally published in 1932, Kathleen Tamagawa's pioneering Asian American memoir is a sensitive and thoughtful look at the personal and social complexities of growing up racially mixed during the early twentieth century. Born in 1893 to an Irish American mother and a Japanese father and raised in Chicago and Japan, Tamagawa reflects on the difficulty she experienced fitting into either parent's native culture. She describes how, in America, her every personal quirk and quality was seen as quintessentially Japanese and how she was met unpredictably with admiration or fear-perceived as a "Japa
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. xxxii-xxxiv)
,
Holy prayers in a horse's ear -- A fit in Japan.
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780813542973
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Holy Prayers in a Horse's Ear : A Japanese American Memoir
Language:
English
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