Polite lies : on being a woman caught between cultures / Kyoko Mori
- Bib ID:
- 1754115
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Mori, Kyoko
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- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Description:
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- New York : Henry Holt & Co., 1997
- 258 p. ; 22 cm.
- ISBN:
- 080504079X
- Summary:
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Kyoko Mori's life falls into two halves: childhood in Japan, adulthood in the Midwest. In both places she has been an outsider, unable to quite mimic everyone's polite lies. In twelve penetrating, painful, and at times hilarious essays, she explores the codes of silence, deference, and expression that govern Japanese and American women's lives. Throughout, Mori examines the paradox at the center of her own life: she is too Japanese to trust irrational feelings such as love or grief and too American to live a life built on denying them. Standing in this painful place of perfect honesty, Mori explores the ties that bind us to family and the lies that keep us apart, the rituals of mourning that make death human, and the images of the body that make sex seem foreign to Japanese women and ever-present to Americans.
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- Machine derived contents note: Chapter One
- LANGUAGE
- 3
- Chapter Two
- FAMILY
- 20
- Chapter Three
- SECRETS
- 36
- Chapter Four
- RITUALS
- 61
- Chapter Five
- A WOMAN'S PLACE
- 82
- Chapter Six
- BODIES
- 107
- Chapter Seven
- SYMBOLS
- 135
- Chapter Eight
- SCHOOL
- 161
- Chapter Nine
- TEARS
- 181
- Chapter Ten
- LIES
- 208
- Chapter Eleven
- SAFETY
- 232
- Chapter Twelve
- HOME
- 248.
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- Publication date:
- 1997
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