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Author Fries, Kenny, 1960- author.

Title In the province of the gods / Kenny Fries.

Publication Info. Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2017]
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Description 1 online resource (viii, 198 pages).
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Series Living out: gay and lesbian autobiographies
Living out.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-198).
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.
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.
Note The Cushing Library/Women and Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture. TXA
Print version record.
Subject Fries, Kenny, 1960- -- Travel -- Japan.
Fries, Kenny, 1960- (OCoLC)fst00127193
Fries, Kenny, 1960- -- Travel -- Japan.
Japan -- Description and travel.
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.
Authors, American. (OCoLC)fst00821764
Authors with disabilities. (OCoLC)fst01748136
Gay men. (OCoLC)fst00939117
Gays with disabilities. (OCoLC)fst01201899
People with disabilities -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01057340
Travel. (OCoLC)fst01155558
Japan. (OCoLC)fst01204082
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Gay disabled people.
LGBTQ+ disabled people.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General.
Genre/Form Autobiography. (DNLM)D020493
Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Gay autobiographies.
LGBTQ+ autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
Other Form: Print version: Fries, Kenny, 1960- In the province of the gods. Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2017] 9780299314200 (DLC) 2017010427 (OCoLC)979994410
ISBN 9780299314293 (electronic book)
0299314294 (electronic book)
9780299314286 (electronic book)
0299314286 (electronic book)
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