Title:
Water thicker than blood : a memoir of a post-internment childhood / George Uba.
ISBN:
9781439922576
9781439922583
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Publication Information:
Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2022.
Physical Description:
xiii, 210 pages ; 23 cm.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: pt. I DISLOCATIONS, RELOCATIONS -- 1. Camp Town, Race Track -- 2. Women with Bright Ideas -- 3. In Honor of German Cookies -- pt. II FITTING IN NICELY -- 4. Indians of Rollo Street -- 5. Nobody Boy -- 6. Foreigners Made in America -- 7. Water Thicker Than Blood -- 8. Weirdo -- 9. Ignis Sum -- 10. Ministries of Surveillance, a Comic Interlude -- 11. Buddhaheads at Holiday Bowl -- pt. III TRAUMA -- 12. Shotgun Marriage -- 13. "Good Evening, Friends, from Coast to Coast" -- 14. Night before Noon -- 15. A Boy Scout of Japanese America, Part I -- A Minor Drowning Incident -- 16. A Boy Scout of Japanese America, Part II -- Valor -- 17. A Glimmer of Light -- pt. IV LIKE CHILDREN BICKERING -- 18. Words at War -- 19. Harold and Laura Carew -- 20. Rotten -- pt. V DEPTH PERCEPTIONS -- 21. Powers of the Fourth Estate -- 22. Wunnerful Life -- 23. In Transit -- 24. Rites of Refusal -- 25. Yogore Nation -- 26. A Mayonnaise Sandwich -- 27. Higher Gravities -- pt. VI REQUIEM FOR YESTERDAY -- 28. Gone Heart Mountain -- 29. Magic Mirrors, Fables for Childhood -- 30. Egg and Rose.
Summary:
"Utilizing narrative prose, impressionistic poetry, and retellings of Japanese myth and legend, George Uba's memoir examines post-internment life and generational trauma among Nisei and Sansei across the United States"-- Provided by publisher
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OCLC Number:
on1285874013
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