Transcultural Japan : at the borderlands of race, gender and identity / edited by David Blake Willis and Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu.

Other author Willis, David Blake.
Other author Murphy-Shigematsu, Stephen.
Format Book
Publication InfoLondon ; New York : Routledge, 2008.
Descriptionxxv, 342 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects

SeriesRoutledge studies in Asia's transformations ; 20
Routledge studies in Asia's transformations ; 20. ^A512300
Contents Transcultural Japan: metamorphosis in the cultural borderlands and beyond / David Blake Willis and Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu -- A perfectly ordinary ethnic Korean in Japan : reprise / Kyo Nobuko (with Akemi Wegmüller) -- Between two shores: transnational projects and Filipina wives in/from Japan / Nobue Suzuki -- Gender, modernity, and eroticized internationalism in Japan / Karen Kelsky -- Between privilege and prejudice: Japanese-Brazilian migrants in "the land of yen and the ancestors" / Angelo Akimitsu Ishi -- From ethnic ghetto to "gourmet republic" : the changing image of Kobe's Chinatown and the ambiguities of being Chinese in modern Japan / Tsu Yun Hui -- Okinawan diasporic identities : between being a buffer and a bridge / Wesley Ueunten -- The marvelous in the real: images of Burakumin in Nakagami Kenji's Kumano saga / Yoshiko Yokochi Samuel -- Positioning oneself in the Japanese nation state: the Hokkaido Ainu case / Katarina Sjöberg -- "Becoming a better muslim" : identity narratives of Muslim foreign workers in Japan / Onishi Akiko -- Dejima: creolization and enclaves of difference in transnational Japan / David Blake Willis -- The racialization of Japan / William Wetherall -- "The invisible man" and other narratives of living in the borderlands of race and nation / Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu -- Ethnoscapes and the other in twenty-first century Japan / David Blake Willis and Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu -- Afterword: marginals, minorities, majorities and migrants--studying the Japanese borderlands in contemporary Japan / Roger Goodman.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2007008715
ISBN9780415368902 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN0415368901 (hardback : alk. paper)

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