Holy Prayers in a Horse's Ear: A Japanese American Memoir

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Holy Prayers in a horse’s ear multi-ethnic literatures of the americas amritjit singh, carla l. peterson, c. lok chua, series editors The MELA series aims to expand and deepen our sense of American literatures as multicultural and multi-lingual and works to establish a broader understanding of “America” as a complex site for the creation of national, transnational, and global narratives. Volumes in the series focus on the recovery, consolidation, and reevaluation of literary expression in the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean as shaped by the experience of race, ethnicity, national origin, region, class, gender, and language. Lin Yutang chinatown family edited by C. Lok Chua Pauline E. Hopkins daughter of the revolution: the major nonfiction works of pauline e. hopkins edited by Ira Dworkin empire and the literature of sensation: an anthology of nineteenth-century popular fiction edited by Jesse Alemán and Shelley Streeby Kathleen Tamagawa holy prayers in a horse’s ear: a japanese american memoir edited by Greg Robinson and Elena Tajima Creef Claude McKay a long way from home edited by Gene Andrew Jarrett shadowed dreams: women’s poetry of the harlem renaissance 2nd edition, revised and expanded edited by Maureen Honey visions and divisions: american immigration literature, 1870–1930 edited by Tim Prchal and Tony Trigilio zora neale hurston: collected plays edited by Jean Lee Cole and Charles Mitchell Holy Prayers in a horse’s ear a japanese american memoir Kathleen Tamagawa edited and with an introduction by Greg Robinson and Elena Tajima Creef with Shirley Geok-lin Lim and Floyd Cheung RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS NEW BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY AND LONDON Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Tamagawa, Kathleen, 1893–1979. Holy prayers in a horse’s ear : a Japanese American memoir / Kathleen Tamagawa ; edited and with introduction by Greg Robinson and Elena Tajima Creef ; with Shirley Geok-lin Lim and Floyd Cheung. p. cm. — (Multi-ethnic literatures of the Americas) Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-0-8135-4297-3 (hardcover : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8135-4298-0 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Tamagawa, Kathleen, 1893–1979. 2. Japanese Americans—Biography. 3. Immigrants—United States—Biography. I. Robinson, Greg, 1966– II. Creef, Elena Tajima. III. Tamagawa, Kathleen, 1893–1979. Fit in Japan. IV. Title. CT275.T25A3 2008 973'.04956092—dc22 [B] 2007029665 A British Cataloging-in-Publication record for this book is available from the British Library. Holy Prayers in a Horse’s Ear first published by Ray Long & Richard R. Smith, Inc. in 1932. “A Fit in Japan” first published in New Copy in 1932. Introduction and scholarly apparatus to this edition copyright © 2008 by Greg Robinson and Elena Tajima Creef All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher. Please contact Rutgers University Press, 100 Joyce Kilmer Avenue, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8099. The only exception to this prohibition is “fair use” as defined by U.S. copyright law. Text design by Adam B. Bohannon Visit our Web site: http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu Manufactured in the United States of America ...