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In the Province of the Gods de Kenny Fries

In the Province of the Gods: Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiog

Autor Kenny Fries
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 19 sep 2017
Kenny Fries embarks on a journey of profound self-discovery as a disabled foreigner in Japan, a society historically hostile to difference. As he visits gardens, experiences Noh and butoh, and meets artists and scholars, he also discovers disabled gods, one-eyed samurai, blind chanting priests, and A-bomb survivors. When he is diagnosed as HIV positive, all his assumptions about Japan, the body, and mortality are shaken, and he must find a way to reenter life on new terms.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780299314200
ISBN-10: 0299314200
Pagini: 216
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: University of Wisconsin Press
Colecția University of Wisconsin Press
Seria Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiog

Recenzii

"Kenny Fries writes out of the pure hot emergency of a mortal being trying to keep himself alive. So much is at stake here—health, affection, culture, trauma, language—but its greatest surprise is what thrives in the midst of suffering. A beautiful book."—Paul Lisicky, author of The Narrow Door

"Like the best memoirs, it reminds us of the genre's twinned truths: first, that the surest way to discover the self is to look out at the world, and second, that the best way to teach others about something is to tell them not 'what it is,' but what it means to you. Fries's deft, questioning prose is as full of compassion as curiosity, and his revelations about himself are no less compelling than what he learns about Japan."—Dale Peck, author of Visions and Revisions: Coming of Age in the Age of AIDS

"Deeply moving and exquisitely written about many things—cultural and physical difference, sexuality, love, loss, mortality, and the ephemeral nature of beauty and art—and a love letter to Japan."—Mira Bartók, author of The Memory Palace

“Elegant and probing, In the Province of the Gods reads like the log of an early adventurer charting a newly discovered land. History, sexual politics, disability, and wooden fortune sticks are blended into an unexpected, tightly written exploration of Japanese culture. Fries may be the guy on the journey, but we're the ones making the discoveries.”—Susan R. Nussbaum, author of Good Kings, Bad Kings

"In this subtle page turner, Fries helps reinvent the travel-as-pilgrimage narrative. He neither exoticizes nor shies away from the potential pitfalls of a western mind traveling abroad; instead he demonstrates how, through an all too rare open heart and a true poet's eye, bridges can be built, and understanding deepened, one sincere action at a time."—Marie Mutsuki Mockett, author of Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye

Notă biografică

Kenny Fries is the author of Body, Remember: A Memoir and The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin's Theory. He is the editor of Staring Back: The Disability Experience from the Inside Out. He teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Goddard College and is the recipient of a prestigious Creative Capital grant.

Cuprins

Prologue: In the Province of the Gods
 
I. Floating
One: Genkan
Two: Fortune
Three: Barrier Free
Four: Foreign Affairs
Five: Mono no Aware
Six: Physical Facts
Seven: A Mountain of Skulls and Candlelit Graves
Eight: An Infected Throat and a Healing Tree
Nine: Borrowing the Hills
 
II. Away
One: Before
Two: After
 
III. World
One: Survivals
Two: A Pair of One-Winged Birds
Three: History Being Created, or What the Leech Child Says
Four: Rare and Uncommon Beings
Five: Bubbling Water
Six: My Japan
Seven: Before and After
Eight: Positive Effects
Nine: New Stories in an Ancient Land
 
Epilogue: Procession
 
Acknowledgments
Suggested Readings  

Descriere

An American's journey of profound self-discovery in Japan, and an exquisite tale of cultural and physical difference, sexuality, love, loss, mortality, and the ephemeral nature of beauty and art.