9780385471848-038547184X-Where the Body Meets Memory: An Odyssey of Race, Sexuality and Identity

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

ISBN-13: 9780385471848
ISBN-10: 038547184X
Author: David Mura
Publication date: 1997
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Format: Paperback 288 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780385471848
ISBN-10: 038547184X
Author: David Mura
Publication date: 1997
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Format: Paperback 288 pages

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Where the Body Meets Memory: An Odyssey of Race, Sexuality and Identity (ISBN-13: 9780385471848 and ISBN-10: 038547184X), written by authors David Mura, was published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group in 1997. With an overall rating of 4.5 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Where the Body Meets Memory: An Odyssey of Race, Sexuality and Identity (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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In Turning Japanese, poet David Mura chronicled a year in Japan in which his sense of identity as a Japanese American was transformed. In Where the Body Meets Memory, 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.

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 race and desire are rarely discussed, how certain taboos continue to haunt this country's understanding of itself. Ultimately, Mura faces the most difficult legacy of miscegenation: raising children in a world which refuses to recognize and honor its racial diversity.

Intimate and lyrically stunning, Where the Body Meets Memory is a personal journey out of the self and into America's racial and sexual psyche.

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