Kniha When Half Is Whole Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu

When Half Is Whole

Multiethnic Asian American Identities

Jazyk: Angličtina
Vazba: Pevná
Dostupnost: Skladem u dodavatele
Odesíláme za 14-21 dnů
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"I listen and gather people's stories. Then I write them down in a way that I hope will communicate...

Informace o knize

Jazyk
Angličtina
Vazba
Kniha - Pevná
Vydáno
2012
Stránek
248
EAN
9780804775175
ISBN
0804775176
Enbook ID
04719084
Hmotnost
363
Rozměry
140 x 216 x 18

Kompletní popis

"I listen and gather people's stories. Then I write them down in a way that I hope will communicate something to others, so that seeing these stories will give readers something of value. I tell myself that this isn't going to be done unless I do it, just because of who I am. It's a way of making my mark, leaving something behind . . . not that I'm planning on going anywhere right now." So explains Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu in this touching, introspective, and insightful examination of mixed race Asian American experiences. The son of an Irish American father and Japanese mother, Murphy-Shigematsu uses his personal journey of identity exploration and discovery of his diverse roots to illuminate the journeys of others. Throughout the book, his reflections are interspersed among portraits of persons of biracial and mixed ethnicity and accounts of their efforts to answer a seemingly simple question: Who am I? Here we meet Norma, raised in postwar Japan, the daughter of a Japanese woman and an American serviceman, who struggled to make sense of her ethnic heritage and national belonging. Wei Ming, born in Australia and raised in the San Francisco of the 1970s and 1980s, grapples as well with issues of identity, in her case both ethnic and sexual. We also encounter Rudy, a Mexipino; Marshall, a Jewish, adopted Korean; Mitzi, a Blackinawan; and other extraordinary people who find how connecting to all parts of themselves also connects them to others. With its attention on people who have been regarded as half this or half that throughout their lives, these stories make vivid the process of becoming whole.

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