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Author Fries, Kenny, 1960- author.

Title In the province of the gods / Kenny Fries
Published Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2017]
©2017

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 198 pages)
Series Living out: gay and lesbian autobiographies
Living out.
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-198)
Notes The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture. TXA
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Subject Fries, Kenny, 1960- -- Travel -- Japan
SUBJECT Fries, Kenny, 1960- fast
Fries, Kenny, 1960- -- Travel -- Japan nli
Subject Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography
Gay people with disabilities -- United States -- Biography
Gay men -- United States -- Biography
Authors with disabilities -- United States -- Biography
People with disabilities -- Japan -- Social conditions
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / LGBT.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / People with Disabilities.
TRAVEL / Asia / Japan.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General
Authors, American
Authors with disabilities
Gay men
Gays with disabilities
People with disabilities -- Social conditions
Travel
Gay disabled people.
LGBTQ+ disabled people.
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
SUBJECT Japan -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069398
Subject Japan
United States
Genre/Form autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
Gay autobiographies.
LGBTQ+ autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780299314293
0299314294
9780299314286
0299314286