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In the province of the gods / Kenny Fries.
- Title
- In the province of the gods / Kenny Fries.
- Author
- Fries, Kenny, 1960-
- Publication
- Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2017]
- ©2017
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| Text | Request in advance | PS3556.R568 Z46 2017 | Off-site |
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- Description
- viii, 198 pages; 23 cm.
- Summary
- A disabled foreigner in Japan--a society historically hostile to difference--Kenny Fries spins a tale of exciting, bewildering adventure. As he visits Japanese 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 re-enter life on new terms.
- Series Statement
- Living out: gay and lesbian autobiographies
- Uniform Title
- Living out
- Subject
- Fries, Kenny, 1960- > Travel > Japan
- Fries, Kenny, 1960-
- 2000-2099
- Authors, American > 21st century > Biography
- Gays with disabilities > United States > Biography
- Gay men > United States > Biography
- Authors with disabilities > United States > Biography
- People with disabilities > Japan > Social conditions
- Authors, American
- Authors with disabilities
- Gay men
- Gays with disabilities
- People with disabilities > Social conditions
- Travel
- Japan
- United States
- Japan > Description and travel
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-198).
- Contents
- Part 1. Floating. Genkan -- Fortune -- Barrier free -- Foreign affairs -- mono no aware -- Physical facts -- A mountain of skulls and candlelit graves -- An infected throat and a healing tree -- Borrowing the hills.
- Part 2. Away. Before -- After.
- Part 3. World. Survivals -- A pair of one-winged birds -- History being created, or What the leech child says -- Rare and uncommon beings -- Bubbling water -- My Japan -- Before and after -- Positive effects -- New stories in an ancient land -- Procession.
- ISBN
- 9780299314200
- 0299314200
- LCCN
- ^^2017010427
- OCLC
- 979994410
- SCSB-12523597
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library