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Polite lies : on being a woman caught between cultures / Kyoko Mori.
Van Pelt Library F358.2.J3 M67 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mori, Kyoko.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mori, Kyoko.
- Japanese American women--Middle West--Biography.
- Japanese American women.
- Women.
- Manners and customs.
- Middle West.
- Japan.
- Women--Middle West--Biography.
- Japanese women--Middle West--Social life and customs.
- Japanese women.
- Women--Japan--Social life and customs.
- Middle West--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 258 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Henry Holt & Co., 1997.
- Summary:
- Kyoko Mori's life falls into two halves: childhood in Japan, adulthood in the Midwest. In both places she has been an outsider, unable to quite mimic everyone's polite lies. In twelve penetrating, painful, and at times hilarious essays, she explores the codes of silence, deference, and expression that govern Japanese and American women's lives. Throughout, Mori examines the paradox at the center of her own life: she is too Japanese to trust irrational feelings such as love or grief and too American to live a life built on denying them. Standing in this painful place of perfect honesty, Mori explores the ties that bind us to family and the lies that keep us apart, the rituals of mourning that make death human, and the images of the body that make sex seem foreign to Japanese women and ever-present to Americans.
- ISBN:
- 080504079X
- OCLC:
- 36648708
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