Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu / David Blake Willis (eds.)

Transcultural Japan

At the Borderlands of Race, Gender and Identity
Herausgeber: Willis, David Blake; Murphy-Shigematsu, Stephen

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Produktbeschreibung

Provides a critical examination of being Other in Japan. Portraying the multiple intersections of race, ethnicity, class, and gender, this book suggests ways in which the transcultural borderlands of Japan reflect globalization in this island nation. It reports regional, national, and cosmopolitan movements.

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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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9780415368902
• ISBN-10: 0415368901
• Artikelnr.: 23593127

Autorenporträt

DAVID BLAKE WILLIS is Professor of Anthropology and Education at Soai University, Osaka, where he has been since 1986. He was a Senior Associate Professor at the University of Oxford 2006-2007. STEPHEN MURPHY-SHIGEMATSU, Professor at the University of Tokyo 1994-2006, received a doctorate from Harvard, was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford, and is Professor at Fielding University.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Introduction 1. Transcultural Japan: Metamorphosis in the Cultural
Borderlands and Beyond Part 2: 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 3: Diaspora and Mobility 5.
Between Privilege and Prejudice: Japanese-Brazilian Migrants in "The Land
of Yen and the Ancestors" 6. From Ethnic Ghetto to "Gourmet Republic": The
Changing Image of Kobe's Chinatown and the Ambiguity of Being Chinese in
Modern Japan 7. Okinawan Diasporic Identities: Between Being a Buffer and a
Bridge Part 4: 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 5: Transnational, Transcultural Flows 11. Dejima:
Creolization and Enclaves of Difference in Transnational Japan 12. 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 21st Century Japan. Afterword: Marginals, Minorities, Majorities and
Migrants: Studying the Japanese Borderlands in Contemporary Japan