Transcultural Japan

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

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Produktbeschreibung

Historically Japan has alternated between periods of celebration of a diverse, multicultural society and severe spells of xenophobia and persecution of the Other. This collection of multidisciplinary essays re-introduces the idea of Japan as a multicultural society and reflects a rapidly changing Japan as the Japanese confront a new range of diversity in their midst. Shedding new light on the manifestations of difference in Japan from a diverse range of authors and perspectives, this extraordinary book is a study of those persons who are very much part of Japanese society today, but whose voices have long been neglected, silenced or oppressed. Written in accessible language, this broad-based volume is an attractive and useful resource for students and academics, as well as being a timely and revealing contribution to research scholars and for those interested in the phenomena of cultural identities and transformations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 370
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9780415394345
• ISBN-10: 0415394341
• Artikelnr.: 25848091

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