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Transcultural Japan / edited by David Blake Willis, Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu. [print]

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Routledge, [(c)2008.Description: xxv, 342 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780415394345
  • 0415394341
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HM1271.T736 2008
  • HM1271.M978.T736 2008
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Contents:
Japan metamorphosis : transformation in the cultural borderlands of Japan David Blake Willis and Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu A perfectly ordinary ethnic Korean in Japan : reprise Kyo Nobuko ; with Akemi Wegmuller Transgressing women : reading narratives of "Filipina brides" in Japan since the 1980s Nobue Suzuki Self as other : internationalism as resistance among Japanese women Karen Kelsky Japanese-Brazilian migrants in "the land of yen and the ancestors" between privilege and prejudice Angelo Akimitsu Ishi From ethnic ghetto to "gourmet republic" : the changing image of Kobe's Chinatown and the ambiguity 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 modern Japanese fiction (a focus on Nakagami Kenji's Kumano saga) / Yoshiko Yokochi Samuel Positioning oneself in the Japanese nation state : the Hokkaido Ainu case Katarina Sjberg ; "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.
Summary: Shedding new light on the manifestations of difference in Japan from a diverse range of authors and perspectives, this 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.
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Japan metamorphosis : transformation in the cultural borderlands of Japan David Blake Willis and Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu A perfectly ordinary ethnic Korean in Japan : reprise Kyo Nobuko ; with Akemi Wegmuller Transgressing women : reading narratives of "Filipina brides" in Japan since the 1980s Nobue Suzuki Self as other : internationalism as resistance among Japanese women Karen Kelsky Japanese-Brazilian migrants in "the land of yen and the ancestors" between privilege and prejudice Angelo Akimitsu Ishi From ethnic ghetto to "gourmet republic" : the changing image of Kobe's Chinatown and the ambiguity 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 modern Japanese fiction (a focus on Nakagami Kenji's Kumano saga) / Yoshiko Yokochi Samuel Positioning oneself in the Japanese nation state : the Hokkaido Ainu case Katarina Sjberg ; "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.

Shedding new light on the manifestations of difference in Japan from a diverse range of authors and perspectives, this 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. Link to source of summary

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