Dear Ken-chan : A Letter from Japan / Kazuko Winter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Winter, Kazuko, author.

Series:

Asian Studies - Book Archive pre-2000.

Asian Studies - Book Archive pre-2000

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnicity--Japan.

Ethnicity.

Women--Japan--Biography.

Women.

Japan--Biography.

Japan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Other Title:

A Letter from Japan

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This candid memoir is a gripping personal tale of cultural schizophrenia. Kazuko Winter was the daughter of a high-ranking Japanese diplomat, raised and educated outside her native Japan in India, South Africa, Australia, and Oxford, England, in the 1950s and 1960s. She also spent time with her parents in Nigeria and Paraguay. Never fully at home anywhere, she suffered from an increasing sense of isolation that once led her to the brink of suicide, and at another stage to seriously consider entering a Catholic order of nuns. Written in the form of a letter to an old Japanese friend, the book relates the author's turbulent love affair with a young Japanese diplomat, her turbulent decision to break off the affair because she did not believe she belonged within Japanese society, and her subsequent happy marriage to a German scholar. At once disturbing and uplifting, this is an intensely felt story of the path to healing and her gradual reacceptance of herself, her mother and her Japanese heritage.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Kazuko Winter

Preface / Kazuko Winter

Part One Beginnings / Kazuko Winter

Part Two India / Kazuko Winter

Part Three South Africa / Kazuko Winter

Part Four Sojourn in Shibuya / Kazuko Winter

Part Five Australia / Kazuko Winter

Part Six Nigeria and Return to Sydney / Kazuko Winter

Part Seven Things Japanese / Kazuko Winter

Part Eight Oxford / Kazuko Winter

Part Nine South America / Kazuko Winter

Part Ten Back in Oxford / Kazuko Winter

Part Eleven Return to Asuncion / Kazuko Winter

Part Twelve Germany / Kazuko Winter

Part Thirteen Kilimanjaro / Kazuko Winter

Part Fourteen Back to Europe / Kazuko Winter

Part Fifteen Rediscovering Japan / Kazuko Winter

Postscript / Kazuko Winter.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Dear Ken-chan : A Letter from Japan.

ISBN:

9789004214118

OCLC:

605153055

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004214118 DOI

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.