Configurations of Family in Contemporary Japan

Herausgeber: Aoyama, Tomoko; Dasgupta, Romit; Dales, Laura

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the meanings and practices of "family" in Japan, and brings together research by scholars of literature, gender studies, media and cultural studies, sociology and anthropology. The chapters examine key issues such as ageing, single households, non-heterosexual living arrangements and parenting. Employing both multi- and inter-disciplinary approaches, this book combines textual analysis of contemporary television, film, literature, manga, anime and other media with empirical and ethnographic studies of families in Japan and in transnational spaces.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 286g
• ISBN-13: 9781138204775
• ISBN-10: 1138204773
• Artikelnr.: 57053904

Autorenporträt

Tomoko Aoyama is Associate Professor in Japanese at the University of Queensland, Australia Laura Dales is Assistant Professor in Asian Studies at the School of Social and Culture Studies at the University of Western Australia. Romit Dasgupta is Assistant Professor in Asian Studies at the School of Social and Culture Studies at the University of Western Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I: Family, Companionship 1. Re-imagining the
"Post-Bubble" Family in Tokyo Sonata and Hush!2. Suitably Single?:
Representations of Singlehood in Contemporary Japan 3. Accommodating
Japan's Ageing Sexual Minorities: The "Family of Friends" Concept in LGBTI
Seniors' Residential Care Part II: Old Age, Women, Storytelling 4. The
Girl-Grandmother Relation in Japanese Children's Literature 5. Girls, Old
Women, and Fairytale Families in 'The Old Woman's Skin' and Howl's Moving
Castle Part III: Contemporary Parenting 6. From Model to Deviant:
Conflicting Representations of Parenthood in the Transnational Families in
Japan and Brazil 7. The Role of Newspapers in Constructing Public
Representations of "Monster Parents" Part IV: Transnational Families 8.
Making "Traditional" Families in Transnational Settings: Japanese Women in
Balinese-Japanese Marriages 9. Transnational Japanese Women and Family
Space in Western Australia 10. Reconciling Migration and Filial Piety:
Accounts of Japanese Lifestyle Migrants in Australia 11. Epilogue: The
Family in Twenty-First Century Japan: Between Nation and Transnation