Escaping Japan reflections on estrangement and exile in the twenty-first century / edited by Blai Guarné and Paul Hansen.

Other author Guarné, Blai.
Other author Hansen, Paul Simon, 1969-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLondon ; New York : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group 2018.
Descriptionxviii, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Subjects
Japan--Civilization. --21st century.
Japan--Social life and customs. --21st century.

SeriesJapan anthropology workshop series
Contents Maid cafés: affect, life and escape in Akihabara / Patrick W. Galbraith -- The burden of sobriety: alcoholism and masculinity in Japan / Paul Christensen -- Robot dreams: play, escape and masculine-romanticism in Japanese techno-culture / Hirofumi Katsuno -- The globalization of melancholic affect: escaping soft power through the literature of Murakami Haruki / Daniel White -- Escaping through words: memory and oblivion in the Japanese urban landscape / Blai Guarné -- "Escaping" the Hokkaido homelands: Ainu Heteroglossia and the performance of Ainu urban indigeneity in the Kanto region / Kylie Martin -- Kyoko's assemblage: escaping "futsu no nihonjin" in Hokkaido / Paul Hansen -- "Escape" to a place of familiarity: transforming Japanese tourist imaginings of Taiwan / Chien-Yuan Chen -- Fleeing from constraints: Japanese retirement migrants in Malaysia / Mayumi Ono -- After words / Tien-Shi "Lara" Chen, Blai Guarné, Paul Hansen, Susanne Klien, John Mock and David Blake Willis.
Abstract "The idea that Japan is a socially homogenous, uniform society has been increasingly challenged in recent years. This book takes the resulting view further by highlighting how Japan, far from singular or monolithic, is socially and culturally complex. It engages with particular life situations, exploring the extent to which personal experiences and lifestyle choices influence this contemporary multifaceted nation-state. Adopting a theoretically engaged ethnographic approach, and considering a range of 'escapes' both physical and metaphorical, this book provides a rich picture of the fusions and fissures that comprise Japan and Japaneseness today"-- Provided by publisher.
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LCCN 2017032258
ISBN9781138235243 (hardback)

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