Japanese New York : : Migrant Artists and Self-reinvention on the World Stage / / Olga Kanzaki Sooudi.
Spend time in New York City and, soon enough, you will encounter some of the Japanese nationals who live and work there-young English students, office workers, painters, and hairstylists. New York City, one of the world's most vibrant and creative cities, is also home to one of the largest over...
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Sooudi, Olga Kanzaki, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Japanese New York : Migrant Artists and Self-reinvention on the World Stage / Olga Kanzaki Sooudi. Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2014] ©2014 1 online resource (264 p.) : 1 map text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. City of Stories: Finding Japanese New York -- 2. Pushing the Reset Button: Self-Reinvention and the Triumphalist Japanese Migrant Narrative -- 3. Making Art, Being an Artist: The Seductions of Creative Expression in Migrant Life -- 4. Crafting a Position: Becoming Japanese through the Transnational Encounter -- 5. How to Live a Transnational life: Between Heaviness and Lightness -- 6. The Pathological Migrant: Failures, Escape, and Weakness of Character -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Spend time in New York City and, soon enough, you will encounter some of the Japanese nationals who live and work there-young English students, office workers, painters, and hairstylists. New York City, one of the world's most vibrant and creative cities, is also home to one of the largest overseas Japanese populations in the world. Among them are artists and designers who produce cutting-edge work in fields such as design, fashion, music, and art. Part of the so-called "creative class" and a growing segment of the neoliberal economy, they are usually middle-class and college-educated. They move to New York for anywhere from a few years to several decades in the hope of realizing dreams and aspirations unavailable to them in Japan. Yet the creative careers they desire are competitive, and many end up working illegally in precarious, low paying jobs. Though they often migrate without fixed plans for return, nearly all eventually do, and their migrant trajectories are punctuated by visits home. Japanese New York offers an intimate, ethnographic portrait of these Japanese creative migrants living and working in NYC. At its heart is a universal question-how do adults reinvent their lives? In the absence of any material or social need, what makes it worthwhile for people to abandon middle-class comfort and home for an unfamiliar and insecure life? Author Olga Sooudi explores these questions in four different venues patronized by New York's Japanese: a grocery store and restaurant, where hopeful migrants work part-time as they pursue their ambitions; a fashion designer's atelier and an art gallery, both sites of migrant aspirations. As Sooudi's migrant artists toil and network, biding time until they "make it" in their chosen industries, their optimism is complicated by the material and social limitations of their lives. The story of Japanese migrants in NYC is both a story about Japan and a way of examining Japan from beyond its borders. The Japanese presence abroad, a dynamic process involving the moving, settling, and return to Japan of people and their cultural products, is still underexplored. Sooudi's work will help fill this lacuna and will contribute to international migration studies, to the study of contemporary Japanese culture and society, and to the study of Japanese youth, while shedding light on what it means to be a creative migrant worker in the global city today. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Artists New York (State) New York. Foreign workers, Japanese New York (State) New York. Japanese New York (State) New York. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package 9783110649772 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UHP eBook Package 2014-2016 9783110564136 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 9783110752366 print 9780824839413 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824847814 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780824847814 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780824847814/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. City of Stories: Finding Japanese New York -- 2. Pushing the Reset Button: Self-Reinvention and the Triumphalist Japanese Migrant Narrative -- 3. Making Art, Being an Artist: The Seductions of Creative Expression in Migrant Life -- 4. Crafting a Position: Becoming Japanese through the Transnational Encounter -- 5. How to Live a Transnational life: Between Heaviness and Lightness -- 6. The Pathological Migrant: Failures, Escape, and Weakness of Character -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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