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050 00 $aDS822.5$b.F54 1997
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100 1 $aField, Norma,$d1947-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85383704
245 10 $aFrom my grandmother's bedside :$bsketches of postwar Tokyo /$cNorma Field.
260 $aBerkeley, Calif. :$bUniversity of California Press,$c[1997], ©1997.
300 $axv, 204 pages :$billustrations ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 201-204).
520 $aFrom My Grandmother's Bedside is an experiment in genre, a moving and evocative reflection on contemporary Japan, human desire, family relations, life, and death. Norma Field, the daughter of a Japanese woman and an American G.I., returned to Japan in 1995 to tend to her slowly dying grandmother, who had been rendered speechless by multiple strokes.
520 8 $aWhat she finds - both in the memories of her childhood in her grandmother's household and in the altered face of postmodern Japan - forms the substance of her narrative, narrative that transcends both memoir and essay to reveal, through crafted fragments, a refraction of the whole of Japan.
520 8 $aShe juxtaposes details from daily life - conversations overheard on the subway; arguments between her mother and aunts; the struggle to feed, bathe, and care for her grandmother - with observations on the political and social changes that have transformed Japan.
520 8 $aShe gently folds back the complicated layers of blame and responsibility for the war, touching in the process on subjects as diverse as the effects of the atomic bomb, comfort women, biracial/bicultural families, the last farewells of kamikaze pilots, and the dehumanizing effects of Japan's postwar economic boom.
651 0 $aJapan$xSocial life and customs$y1945-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069586
852 00 $beal$hDS822.5$i.F54 1997
852 00 $bbar$hDS822.5$i.F54 1997