Max Saito

Silencing Identity through Communication

Situated Enactments of Sexual Identity and Emotion in Japan

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the ways in which "ordinary"
heterosexual people
habitually (and without malice) make homosexual
people invisible in
ordinary communication processes in Japanese
communities in
Japan and the U.S. I raise the question: What are the
scenes and
communication practices in and through which
homosexuality
becomes invisible or irrelevant to identification of
the self? First, I
explore the communicative style of being ordinary,
in and through
which heterosexuals habitually enact a complete lack
of awareness
of homosexuals. Second, while addressing Japanese
silence and
indirect and ambiguous communication practices, I
examine a direct
mode of Japanese communication called speaking
straightforwardly. Third, I analyze cultural
premises regarding
social and emotional selves associated with being
ordinary and
speaking straightforwardly. Fourth, I describe a
silencing form of
communication which cultivates gut-level discomfort
and fear of homosexuals. Fifth, I analyze Japanese heterosexual
male-
centered lovemaking scenes in ero-manga which provide
possible
sources of misunderstanding between males, females,
and male
homosexuals.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Deutsch
• Abmessung: 220mm
• ISBN-13: 9783639103090
• ISBN-10: 3639103092
• Artikelnr.: 25854006

Autorenporträt

Max Saito is on the Communication faculty at Westfield State
College. He is interested
in the ways in which individual actions, feelings and world views
are interconnected
with both domestic and international issues. He enjoys learning
from his students as
well as his four children, whom he homeschools in Massachusetts
with his wife
Loran.