Yuko Kawai

A Transnational Critique of Japaneseness

Cultural Nationalism, Racism, and Multiculturalism in Japan

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates the construction of Japaneseness from a transnational perspective. By analyzing a variety of communication during the first two decades of the twenty-first century, the author examines how Japaneseness is constructed in relation to discursive Others.

Produktdetails

• New Studies in Modern Japan
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 425g
• ISBN-13: 9781498599009
• ISBN-10: 1498599001
• Artikelnr.: 60413915

Autorenporträt

Yuko Kawai is professor in the College of Intercultural Communication at Rikkyo University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: A Transnational Critique for a Multiculturalist Japan
Chapter 1: Japaneseness, Western and Japanese Concepts of Race, and
Modalities of
Racism
Chapter 2: Neoliberal Nationalism and Japaneseness
Chapter 3: Remembering Japanese Americans and Japanese Brazilians for
Japaneseness
Chapter 4: Using China and Korea for Japaneseness: "Hate Books," History,
and the
Grammar of Japanese Racialized Discourse
Chapter 5: Entering the West and Encountering Asia: Trans-East Asian
Friendships Made
in the West