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Author: Norma Field
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: tokyo, postwar, sketches, bedside, grandmother
Number of Pages: 222
Published: 1997
ISBN-10: 0520208447
ISBN-13: 9780520208445
From 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., and author of the acclaimed In the Realm of a Dying Emperor, returned to Japan in 1995 to tend to her slowly dying grandmother, who had been rendered speechless by multiple strokes. What 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 that transcends both
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Author: Ted Stripha
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Keywords: consumerism, control, culture, book, everyday, print
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2009-04-08
ISBN-10: 0231148143
ISBN-13: 9780231148146
Ted Striphas argues that, although the production and propagation of books have undoubtedly entered a new phase, printed works are still very much a part of our everyday lives. With examples from trade journals, news media, films, advertisements, and a host of other commercial and scholarly materials, Striphas tells a story of modern publishing that proves, even in a rapidly digitizing world, books are anything but dead. From the rise of retail superstores to Oprah’s phenomenal reach, Striphas tracks the methods through which the book industry has adapted (or has failed to adapt) to rap
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