ISBN:
0415368901
,
0203029100
,
9780415368902
,
9780203029107
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xxv, 342 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Asia's transformations
Parallel Title:
Print version Transcultural Japan : At the Borderlands of Race, Gender and Identity
DDC:
305.800952
Keywords:
Multiculturalism
;
Japan Race relations
;
Japan Ethnic relations
Abstract:
Transcultural Japan provides a critical examination of mixed and pure, of becoming and being Other in Japan, of the multiple intersections of identities (cultural, class, gender, race, ethnicity, etc.) and the narratives and conversations about these identities
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Foreword: Toward zones of hybridity in Japan; Part I: Introduction; 1 Transcultural Japan: Metamorphosis in the cultural borderlands and beyond; Part II: Gender and identity; 2 A perfectly ordinary ethnic Korean in Japan: Reprise; 3 Between two shores: Transnational projects and Filipina wives in/from Japan; 4 Gender, modernity, and eroticized internationalism in Japan; Part III: Diaspora and mobility; 5 Between privilege and prejudice: Japanese-Brazilian migrants in "the land of yen and the ancestors"
Description / Table of Contents:
6 From ethnic ghetto to "gourmet republic": The changing image of Kobe's Chinatown and the ambiguities of being Chinese in modern Japan7 Okinawan diasporic identities: Between being a buffer and a bridge; Part IV: Imagining oneself: visibility and invisibility; 8 The marvelous in the real: Images of Burakumin in Nakagami Kenji's Kumano saga; 9 Positioning oneself in the Japanese nation state: The Hokkaido Ainu case; 10 "Becoming a better Muslim": Identity narratives of Muslim foreign workers in Japan; Part V: Transnational, transcultural flows
Description / Table of Contents:
11 Dejima: Creolization and enclaves of difference in transnational Japan12 The racialization of Japan; 13 "The invisible man" and other narratives of living in the borderlands of race and nation; 14 Ethnoscapes and the Other in twenty-first century Japan; Afterword: Marginals, minorities, majorities and migrants-studying the Japanese borderlands in contemporary Japan; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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