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Commodore Perry's Minstrel Show: (James a. Michener Fiction Series)

Commodore Perry's Minstrel Show: (James a. Michener Fiction Series)

          
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In 1854, Commodore Matthew Perry steamed into Edo Bay and "opened" Japan to trade with America. As entertainment for the treaty-signing ceremony, Perry brought a white-men-in-black-face minstrel show-and thereby confirmed the widely whispered Japanese belief that trade with the American "barbarians" could only lead to cultural ruin. Yet the pawns in this clash of cultures-the minstrels, Ace Bledsoe and Ned Clark, and the Japanese interpreter, Manjiro Okubo-are just slightly more curious than cautious. Within the minstrels Manjiro sensed "the subtleties of spirit that reside in all good men." When Ace and Ned are unwittingly made part of a Japanese plot to undermine the American presence, Manjiro helps them escape into the countryside. Pursued by samurai, torn between treachery and loyalty, Manjiro and the minstrels (along with family, friends, and lovers) make their way across Japan, fleeing a showdown with the samurai that gradually becomes inevitable. Commodore Perry's Minstrel Show is the long-awaited prequel-more than a decade in the making-to Richard Wiley's PEN/Faulkner Award-winning novel, Soldiers in Hiding. A sword-swinging page-turner infused with a heady mix of Japanese etiquette, American ideals, and Machiavellian philosophy, Wiley's latest novel sparkles as it shapes history into an enlightened drama of the earliest moments of globalization.

Table of Contents:
Prologue Part One: Edo 1. Dutch Learning 2. Oh, What I'll Find There I Don't Know 3. Accident upon Accident 4. Whitman Sampler 5. Approach of the Outside World 6. Tell Him I'm in Mourning! 7. He Didn't Care about the Neighbors Anymore 8. Don't Get Up on My Account 9. A Word Overheard Is a Word Forgotten 10. The Pavilion of Timelessness 11. Where Has My Heart Gone? 12. A Fly in the Ointment 13. Three Tulips in a Boat 14. Under the Falling Wisteria 15. The Experiment of America 16. Rumors 17. Fine Mornin', Ain't It? 18. Commodore Perry's Anxiety Part Two: Odawara 19. Everything Wrong Everywhere 20. Saved from the Realm of Absolute Calamity 21. "Kambei" 22. Angelface 23. Hired for a Bad Cause 24. Whoa, Nellie 25. Come to Me, My Dear, Come 26. I Guess There's Hooligans Every Damned Where 27. Twenty Questions 28. Allergic to Pain 29. Einosuke's Anger 30. Japan's Conundrum 31. An Earlier Walker than His Uncle 32. Extra Circumspect, From Now On 33. Behold, Your Defeated Lord 34. We Can't Have This 35. Is It Easier to Go or Be Left Behind? 36. Incense or Prosthetics 37. Irony Provides Relief 38. A Fetish without Many Followers Part Three: Shimoda 39. Keiki and the Planting, Ueno and the River Trout 40. The Wind and Intransigence 41. Hide This in Your Wagon 42. The Omen of the Crows 43. I Have Not, Particularly, Saved Myself 44. Life Is Short. Fall in Love 45. Strength and Flexibility 46. I Am Taking You Home 47. Knowable People 48. Not Selling Chestnuts 49. Outraged Periods and Exclamation Points 50. It's a Poor Life Anyway 51. Alas, We Are Defeated Afterword


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780292714700
  • Publisher: University of Texas Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Texas Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 296
  • Series Title: James a. Michener Fiction Series
  • Weight: 553 gr
  • ISBN-10: 029271470X
  • Publisher Date: 01 Mar 2007
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 24 mm
  • Width: 152 mm


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