LEADER 03543nam 2200709 a 450 001 9910782247403321 005 20230721033004.0 010 $a1-281-77653-X 010 $a9786611776534 010 $a0-8135-4477-7 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813544779 035 $a(CKB)1000000000542090 035 $a(EBL)358312 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000172661 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11155674 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000172661 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10160858 035 $a(PQKB)10824186 035 $a(OCoLC)276172377 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse23280 035 $a(DE-B1597)530255 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813544779 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL358312 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10240596 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL177653 035 $a(OCoLC)437222347 035 $a(OCoLC)1156873791 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC358312 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000542090 100 $a20070724d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHoly prayers in a horse's ear$b[electronic resource] $ea Japanese American memoir /$fKathleen Tamagawa ; edited and with introduction by Greg Robinson and Elena Tajima Creef ; with Shirley Geok-lin Lim and Floyd Cheung 210 $aNew Brunswick, N.J. $cRutgers University Press$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (218 p.) 225 1 $aMulti-ethnic literatures of the Americas 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8135-4297-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. xxxii-xxxiv). 327 $aHoly prayers in a horse's ear -- A fit in Japan. 330 $aOriginally published in 1932, Kathleen Tamagawa?s pioneering Asian American memoir is a sensitive and thoughtful look at the personal and social complexities of growing up racially mixed during the early twentieth century. Born in 1893 to an Irish American mother and a Japanese father and raised in Chicago and Japan, Tamagawa reflects on the difficulty she experienced fitting into either parent?s native culture. She describes how, in America, her every personal quirk and quality was seen as quintessentially Japanese and how she was met unpredictably with admiration or fear?perceived as a ?Japanese doll? or ?the yellow menace.? When her family later moved to Japan, she was viewed there as a ?Yankee,? and remained an outsider in that country as well. As an adult she came back to the United States as an American diplomat?s wife, but had trouble feeling at home in any place. This edition, which also includes Tamagawa?s recently rediscovered short story, ?A Fit in Japan,? and a critical introduction, will challenge readers to reconsider how complex ethnic identities are negotiated and how feelings of alienation limit human identification in any society. 410 0$aMulti-ethnic literatures of the Americas. 606 $aJapanese Americans$vBiography 606 $aImmigrants$zUnited States$vBiography 615 0$aJapanese Americans 615 0$aImmigrants 676 $a973/.04956092 676 $aB 700 $aTamagawa$b Kathleen$f1893-1979.$01519418 701 $aRobinson$b Greg$f1966-$0512224 701 $aCreef$b Elena Tajima$01519419 701 2$aTamagawa$b Kathleen$f1893-1979.$01519418 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782247403321 996 $aHoly prayers in a horse's ear$93757509 997 $aUNINA