Turning Japanese

Author : David Galef
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504023863

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Turning Japanese by David Galef Pdf

Gou ni itte wa, gou ni shitagae, runs an old Japanese proverb: Obey the customs of the village you enter. Just don’t overdo things. It may already be too late for Cricket Collins, a recent Ivy League graduate who travels to Osaka for his first real job as an English instructor. The time is late 1970s, with Japan quickly becoming the new find-yourself region that India was to the backpack set in the 1960s. From pachinko parlors to paper cranes, tea ceremonies to translation problems, everything is entrancing to Cricket, at first, as he throws himself headfirst into a two-thousand-year-old culture. But soon he gets fired from his teaching job at Kansai Gakuin for petty theft, and on a brief trip to Korea he becomes embroiled in a sexual misadventure with painful after-effects. Spinning slowly out of orbit in his free-floating expatriate existence, he starts to lose touch with family, friends, and reality. It isn’t until he returns home to America that he begins to turn Japanese with a vengeance. Turning Japanese is as much about the allure of a foreign culture as it is about the divided existence of an expat and the terrors of ones own mind. Be careful of breaking down the barriers between two cultures: the breakdown you create may be your own.

Author : MariNaomi
Publisher : Oni Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-06
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1637150946

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Turning Japanese by MariNaomi Pdf

"A vulnerable, searching, raw record." — Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center The year is 1995. Fresh out of a long-term relationship, twenty-two-year old MariNaomi finds herself in San Jose, California. Mari, a mixed-race Japanese American, has for many years felt disconnected from the culture of her mother. Immersed in the pan-asian diaspora of San Jose, Mari searches for cultural and romantic connections. It doesn't take long for Mari to find new loves, and a new job—at a hostess bar for Japanese expats—in a bid to learn the Japanese language and culture. Turning Japanese moves as Mari does, from San Jose to Tokyo, as she tries to get by in an unfamiliar city with rudimentary language skills—all in the hopes of finally connecting with her Japanese relatives without the use of her mother as a translator. Turning Japanese: Expanded Edition includes new story pages that bring fresh insight and a new resolution to this classic comics memoir of our times.

Author : David Mura
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780802196026

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Turning Japanese by David Mura Pdf

“The poet David Mura brings an intriguing perspective to the New World quest for enlightenment from this ancient and ascendant culture” (The New York Times). 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. “A dizzying interior voyage of self-discovery and splintered identity.” —Chicago Tribune “There is brilliant writing in this book, observations of Japanese humanity and culture that are subtly different from and more penetrating than what we usually get from Westerners.” —The New Yorker “Turning Japanese reads like a fascinating novel you can’t put down . . . Mura’s story is a universal one, and one that is accessible to everyone, even those whose experience in the U.S. is not that of a person of color.” —Asian Week “[Mura] paints a portrait of Japan that is rich and satisfying . . . a refreshingly kindly and tolerant study, a powerful antidote to the venomous anti-Japanese mood that seems, distressingly, to be seizing some corners of the American mind.” —Conde Nast Traveler

Author : Cathy Yardley
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429953443

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Turning Japanese by Cathy Yardley Pdf

The Devil Wears Prada meets Lost in Translation in this irresistible new novel from L. A. Woman author Cathy Yardley Meet Lisa Falloya, an aspiring half-Japanese, half-Italian American manga artist who follows her bliss by moving to Tokyo to draw the Japanese-style comics she's been reading for years. Leaving behind the comforts of a humdrum desk job and her workaholic fiancée, Lisa has everything planned---right down to a room with a nice Japanese family---but hasn't taken into account that being half-Asian and enthusiastic isn't going to cut it. Faced with an exacting boss and a conniving "big fish" manga author, Lisa risks her wedding, her friends, and her fears for a shot at making it big.

Author : J. Torres,Ed Northcott
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2006-11-21
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781416530763

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Turning Japanese by J. Torres,Ed Northcott Pdf

This first original graphic novel in an exciting new series is based on the popular hit television show, "Degrassi: The Next Generation." It presents two "off screen" stories, shown from a different perspective, tying both the show and the book together.

Author : David Galef
Publisher : Permanent Press (NY)
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015048778602

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Turning Japanese by David Galef Pdf

An Ivy League graduate obtains a teaching job in 1970s Japan, which has become a find-yourself destination, similar to what India was for the backpack set in the 1960s. The novel follows the hero's cross-cultural experiences until he is kicked out for petty theft. By the author of Flesh.

Author : David Mura
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005-11-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0802142397

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Turning Japanese by David Mura Pdf

In 1984, David Mura, a third-generation Japanese-American, was awarded a writing grant to live in Japan. After years of ignoring his ethnic heritage, Mura, with his wife (an American), embarked on a trip that profoundly changed his life. Turning Japanese chronicles his quest for self-knowledge and racial identity.

Author : Sarah Frederick
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2006-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780824829971

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Turning Pages by Sarah Frederick Pdf

Analysing major interwar women's magazines - the literary journal 'Ladies' Review', the popular domestic periodical 'Housewife's Friend', and the politically radical magazine 'Women's Arts' - this book considers the central place of representations of women for women in the culture of interwar-era Japan.

Author : Christa Albrecht-Crane,Dennis Ray Cutchins
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780838642627

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Adaptation Studies by Christa Albrecht-Crane,Dennis Ray Cutchins Pdf

This collection of essays offers a sustained, theoretically rigorous rethinking of various issues at work in film and other media adaptations. The essays in the volume as a whole explore the reciprocal, intertextual quality of adaptations that borrow, rework, and adapt each other in complex ways; in addition, the authors explore the specific forces

Author : Bert Edstrom
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134279180

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Turning Points in Japanese History by Bert Edstrom Pdf

So-called 'turning points' or 'defining moments' are both the oxygen and grid lines that historians and researchers seek in plotting the path of social and political development of any country. In the case of Japan, the ninth Conference of the European Association of Japanese Studies provided a unique opportunity for leading scholars of Japanese history, politics and international relations to offer an outstanding menu of 'turning points' (many addressed for the first time), over 20 of which are included here. Thematically, the book is divided into sections, including Medieval and Early Modern Japan, Japan and the West, Contested Constructs in the Study of Tokugawa and Meiji Japan, Aspects of Modern Japanese Foreign Policy, and Democracy and Monarchy in Post-War Japan.

Author : Seiwoong Oh
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438120881

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Encyclopedia of Asian-American Literature by Seiwoong Oh Pdf

Traces American writers whose roots are in all parts of Asia, including China, Korea, Japan, Southeast Asia, the Philippines, the Indian subcontinent, and the Middle East.

Author : Miyeko Murase
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art, Japanese
ISBN : 9781588390967

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Turning Point by Miyeko Murase Pdf

Japan's brief but dramatic Momoyama period (1573-1615) witnessed the struggles of a handful of ambitious warlords for control of the long-splintered country and finally the emergence of a united Japan. This was also an era of dynamic cultural development in which the feudal lords sponsored lavish, innovative arts to proclaim their newly acquired power. One such art was a ceramic ware known as Oribe, whose mysterious sudden appearance and rise in popularity are explored in this book. Ceramics are closely connected to the tea ceremony and central to Japanese culture. In this context Oribe wares represented a unique and major development, since they were the easiest Japanese ceramics to carry extensive multicolor decoration. Boldly painted with geometric and naturalistic designs, they display sensuous glazes, especially in a distinctive vitreous green, as well as a whole repertoire of playful new shapes. Their genesis has tradtionally been ascribed to Furuta Oribe (1543/44-1615), a warrior and the foremost tea master of his time, who appears to have played a crucial role in redefining the aesthetics of Japan. Over seventy engaging vessels of Oribe ware, along with striking examples of other types of wares produced in the same milieu, make up the heart of this catalogue. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.

Author : Peter Goulding
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781291538991

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The World Cup 2006 in verse by Peter Goulding Pdf

Author : John Gastil,E. Pierre Deess,Philip J. Weiser,Cindy Simmons
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199888535

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The Jury and Democracy by John Gastil,E. Pierre Deess,Philip J. Weiser,Cindy Simmons Pdf

Alexis de Tocqueville, John Stuart Mill, and the U.S. Supreme Court have all alleged that jury service promotes civic and political engagement, yet none could prove it. Finally, The Jury and Democracy provides compelling systematic evidence to support this view. Drawing from in-depth interviews, thousands of juror surveys, and court and voting records from across the United States, the authors show that serving on a jury can trigger changes in how citizens view themselves, their peers, and their government--and can even significantly increase electoral turnout among infrequent voters. Jury service also sparks long-term shifts in media use, political action, and community involvement. In an era when involved Americans are searching for ways to inspire their fellow citizens, The Jury and Democracy offers a plausible and realistic path for turning passive spectators into active political participants.

Author : Christopher T. Keaveney
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781793625267

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Western Rock Artists, Madame Butterfly, and the Allure of Japan by Christopher T. Keaveney Pdf

Using the framework of Edward Said’s Orientalism, this work examines how Western rock and pop artists—particularly during the age of album rock from the 1970s through the 1990s—perpetuated long-held stereotypes of Japan in their direct encounters with the country and in songs and music videos with Japanese content.