Unpredictable Agents : : The Making of Japan’s Americanists during the Cold War and Beyond / / ed. by Mari Yoshihara.
In Unpredictable Agents, twelve Japanese scholars of American studies tell their stories of how they encountered “America” and came to dedicate their careers to studying it. People in postwar Japan have experienced “America” in a number of ways—through literature, material goods, popular culture, fo...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2021 Part 2 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (238 p.) :; 9 b&w illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART I America, Japan, Okinawa
- 1 Memories of an Okinawan Americanist
- 2 American Paralysis: Floating Homeland, Family, and Masculinity
- 3 On Becoming an Okinawan and a Feminist: My Path to an Americanist Career
- PART II FAMILY TIES
- 4 Learning “America” from the Mennonites
- 5 The Land She Could Never Call Home Again: “America” in My Family History
- 6 Navigating the Sea of Fatherhood across the Pacific
- PART III EMBODIED LIVES, GROUNDED CAREERS
- 7 The Accidental Mirror: The Shine and Shatter of My American Dream
- 8 An Americanist from a Different Shore, and Gazing Back at Japan
- 9 Loneliness, Laughter, and Belonging: A Feminist View of an Asian in America
- PART IV DIFFERENT SHORES, MULTIPLE BORDERS
- 10 An Accidental Historian: My Journey in Research on Japanese North American Community Activism
- 11 An Americanist Who Sees the US from the Peripheries
- 12 Making of a Transpacific Americanist via Latin America: Myself Discovered through Immigration History
- Contributors
- Index