Transcultural Japan: At the Borderlands of Race, Gender and Identity

ISBN-13: 9780415368902 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 368 str.

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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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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