Title Holy prayers in a horse's ear : a Japanese American memoir / Kathleen Tamagawa ; edited and with introduction by Greg Robinson and Elena Tajima Creef ; with Shirley Geok-lin Lim and Floyd Cheung

Published New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xxxiv, 182 pages) : illustrations Series Multi-ethnic literatures of the Americas Multi-ethnic literatures of the Americas. Contents Holy prayers in a horse's ear -- A fit in Japan Summary Originally 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?Japa Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages xxxii-xxxiv) Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Tamagawa, Kathleen, 1893-1979. SUBJECT Tamagawa, Kathleen, 1893-1979 fast Tamagawa, Kathleen, (1893-1979) -- Biographies. ram Subject Japanese Americans -- Biography Immigrants -- United States -- Biography BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Asian American Studies. Immigrants Japanese Americans Américains d'origine japonaise -- Biographies. United States Genre/Form autobiographies (literary works) Autobiographies Biographies Autobiographies. Biographies. Autobiographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book Author Robinson, Greg, 1966- Creef, Elena Tajima. Tamagawa, Kathleen, 1893-1979. Fit in Japan ISBN 9780813544779 0813544777 128177653X 9781281776532 9786611776534 6611776532

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