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Negotiating Bilingual and Bicultural Identities [Elektronische Ressource] : Japanese Returnees Betwixt Two Worlds

Kanno, Yasuko,i1965-

Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012

198 p.

Description based upon print version of record

978-0-8058-4153-4

ER 930 LB 48450

 

Japan  Soziale Identität  Zweisprachigkeit  Rückwanderer  Narrativität 

 

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978-1-410-60756-0

This book examines the changing linguistic and cultural identities of bilingual students through the narratives of four Japanese returnees (kikokushijo) as they spent their adolescent years in North America and then returned to Japan to attend university. As adolescents, these students were polarized toward one language and culture over the other, but through a period of difficult readjustment in Japan they became increasingly more sophisticated in negotiating their identities and more appreciative of their hybrid selves. Kanno analyzes how educational institutions both in thei...