Tokyo life, New York dreams : urban Japanese visions of America, 1890-1924

著者

• Sawada, Mitziko

書誌事項

Tokyo life, New York dreams : urban Japanese visions of America, 1890-1924

Mitziko Sawada

University of California Press, c1996

注記

Sources consulted: p. 245-261

Includes index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This bicultural study focuses on Japanese immigrants in New York and the ideas they had about what they would find there. It considers Japanese immigration to the East Coast, where immigrants were of a different class and social background from the labourers who came to the West Coast and Hawaii. Beginning with a portrait of immigrants' lives in New York City, the study then examines the pre-immigration experience, using popular Japanese literature to trace the origins of immigrant perceptions of the USA. Along with discussions of economics and politics in Tokyo, the book explores the prevalent images, ideologies, social myths, and attitudes of late Meiji and early Taisho Japan. The narrative draws on guide books, magazines, success literature, and popular novels to illuminate the formation of ideas about work, class, gender relations, and freedom in American society. This study analyzes the Japanese construction of a mythic America, perceived as a homomgeneous and exotic "other".

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA28922740
• ISBN:
  • 0520073797
• LCCN: 96019699
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Berkeley
• ページ数/冊数: xvii, 268 p.
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : F128.9.J3
  • DC20 : 974.7/1004956
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Japanese American men -- New York (State) -- New York -- History
  • LCSH : Japanese Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- History
  • LCSH : New York (N.Y.) -- Emigration and immigration -- History
  • LCSH : Tokyo (Japan) -- Emigration and immigration -- History
  • LCSH : Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York -- History