Where the Body Meets Memory an Odyssey of Race, Sexuality, and Identity
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Random House Inc
- Publish date: 07/01/1997
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In Turning Japanese, poet David Mura chronicled the transformation of his sense of identity as a Japanese American during a year in Japan. In Where the Body Meets Memory, Mura focuses on his experience growing up Japanese American in a country that interned both his parents during World War II. Interweaving his own experience with that of his family and of other sansei -- third-generation Japanese Americans -- Mura reveals how being a "model minority" has resulted in a loss of heritage and wholeness for generations of Japanese Americans.
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In vivid and searingly honest prose, Mura discusses how the shame of internment affected his sense of sexuality, leading him to face troubling questions about desire and race: an interracial marriage, compulsive adultery and addiction to a pornography that equates beauty with whiteness. Using his own experience as a measure of racial and sexual grief, Mura illustrates some of the rarely discussed connections between race and desire. Intimate and lyrically stunning, Where the Body Meets Memory is a personal journey out of the self and into America's racial and sexual psyche.
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