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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 1 map |
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Table of Contents:
- 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