This is the first in-depth examination of “half-Japanese” girls in Japan focusing on ethnic, gendered and embodied ‘hybrid’ identities. Challenging the myth of Japan as a single-race society, these girls are seen struggling to positively manoeuvre themselves and negotiate their identities into positions of contestation and control over marginalizing discourses which disempower them as ‘others’ within Japanese society as they begin to mature. Paradoxically, at other times, within more empowering alternative discourses of ethnicity, they also enjoy and celebrate cultural, symbolic, social and linguistic capital which they discursively create for themselves as they come to terms with their constructed identities of “Japaneseness”, “whiteness” and “halfness/doubleness”. This book has a colourful storyline throughout – narrated in the girls’ own voices – that follows them out of childhood and into the rapid physical and emotional growth years of early adolescence.
Innehållsförteckning
Chapter 1: Constructing Hybrid Identity in Japan
Chapter 2: Examining Discourses of ‘Otherness’ in Japan
Chapter 3: The Participants and the Data Collection
Chapter 4: Negotiating Identities
Chapter 5: Claiming Good Difference; Rejecting Bad Difference
Chapter 6: Celebration of Cultural, Symbolic, Linguistic, and Social Capital
Chapter 7: Discursive ‘Embodied’ Identities of Ethnicity and Gender
Chapter 8: Discursive Construction of Hybrid Identity in Japan: Where has it Taken Us?
Om författaren
Laurel D. Kamada is a Lecturer Professor at Tohoku University in Japan. She has published in such areas as: bilingualism and multiculturalism in Japan; gender and ethnic studies; marginalised (hybrid and gendered) identities in Japan; and discourses of ethnic embodiment and masculinity. Her other interests include theoretical and methodological discourse analytic approaches to the examination of identity. She serves on the editorial board of the Japan Journal of Multilingualism and Multiculturalism and is on the Advisory Council of the International Gender and Language Association.
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