George uba (16 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: New. 2022. Paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 208 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.70 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorGeorge Uba is an Emeritus Professor of English at California State University, Northridge, where he served as Chair of the Department of English and was a founding faculty member and Acting Chair of the Depar.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'I thought my life began in Chicago. I was mistaken. That is where my body first made its appearance, but the contours of my life.had their start much sooner.' In Water Thicker Than Blood, poet and professor George Uba traces his life as a Japanese American born in the late 1940s, a period of insidious anti-Japanese racism. His beautiful, impressionist memoir chronicles how he, like many Sansei (and Nisei) across the United States, grappled with dislocation and trauma while seeking acceptance and belonging. Uba's personal account of his efforts to achieve normality and assuage guilt unfolds as racial demographics in America are shifting. He struggled with inherently violent midcentury educational and childrearing practices and a family health crisis, along with bullying. Uba describes boy scouts and yogore (community rebels and castoffs) with vivid detail, using these vignettes to show how margins were blurred and how both sets of youth experienced injury through the same ideological pressures. Water Thicker Than Blood is not a conventional story about recovery or family reconciliation. But itoffers an intimate look at the lasting-in some ways irreversible-damage caused by post-internment ideologies of 'being accepted' and 'fitting in inconspicuously.' It speaks volumes for the greater Sansei post-internment experience.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Water Thicker Than Blood | A Memoir of a Post-Internment Childhood | George Uba | Taschenbuch | Einband - flex.(Paperback) | Englisch | 2022 | Univ of Chicago Behalf of Temple Univ Press | EAN 9781439922583 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Mare Nostrum Group B.V., Doelen 72, 4831 GR BREDA, NIEDERLANDE, gpsr[at]mare-nostrum[dot]co[dot]uk | Anbieter: preigu. …

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Zustand: New. In English.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 208 pages. 9.50x6.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorGeorge Uba is an Emeritus Professor of English at California State University, Northridge, where he served as Chair of the Department of English and was a founding faculty member and Acting Chair of the Depar.

Zustand: New. 2022. Hardcover. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'I thought my life began in Chicago. I was mistaken. That is where my body first made its appearance, but the contours of my life.had their start much sooner.' In Water Thicker Than Blood, poet and professor George Uba traces his life as a Japanese American born in the late 1940s, a period of insidious anti-Japanese racism. His beautiful, impressionist memoir chronicles how he, like many Sansei (and Nisei) across the United States, grappled with dislocation and trauma while seeking acceptance and belonging. Uba's personal account of his efforts to achieve normality and assuage guilt unfolds as racial demographics in America are shifting. He struggled with inherently violent midcentury educational and childrearing practices and a family health crisis, along with bullying. Uba describes boy scouts and yogore (community rebels and castoffs) with vivid detail, using these vignettes to show how margins were blurred and how both sets of youth experienced injury through the same ideological pressures. Water Thicker Than Blood is not a conventional story about recovery or family reconciliation. But itoffers an intimate look at the lasting-in some ways irreversible-damage caused by post-internment ideologies of 'being accepted' and 'fitting in inconspicuously.' It speaks volumes for the greater Sansei post-internment experience.…