Intimate encounters : Filipina women and the remaking of rural Japan

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Intimate encounters : Filipina women and the remaking of rural Japan

Lieba Faier

University of California Press, c2009

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

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Bibliography: p. 249-271

Includes index

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巻冊次

: hbk ISBN 9780520252141

内容説明

This groundbreaking study explores the recent dramatic changes brought about in Japan by the influx of a non-Japanese population, Filipina brides. Lieba Faier investigates how Filipina women who emigrated to rural Japan to work in hostess bars - where initially they were widely disparaged as prostitutes and foreigners - came to be identified by the local residents as 'ideal, traditional Japanese brides.' "Intimate Encounters", an ethnography of cultural encounters, unravels this paradox by examining the everyday relational dynamics that drive these interactions. Faier remaps Japan, the Philippines, and the United States into what she terms a 'zone of encounters,' showing how the meanings of Filipino and Japanese culture and identity are transformed and how these changes are accomplished through ordinary interpersonal exchanges. "Intimate Encounters" provides an insightful new perspective from which to reconsider national subjectivities amid the increasing pressures of globalization, thereby broadening and deepening our understanding of the larger issues of migration and disapora.

目次

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Relations of Cultural Production PART ONE Figures of Desires 1. Sites of Encounter 2. America and Other Stories of Filipina Migration to Japan 3. Japan in the Kiso Valley, the Kiso Valley in Japan PART TWO Terms of Relations 4. Kindred Subjects 5. The Pressures of Home 6. Runaway Stories Epilogue Appendix A Appendix B Notes Bibliography Index
巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780520252158

内容説明

This groundbreaking study explores the recent dramatic changes brought about in Japan by the influx of a non-Japanese population, Filipina brides. Lieba Faier investigates how Filipina women who emigrated to rural Japan to work in hostess bars - where initially they were widely disparaged as prostitutes and foreigners - came to be identified by the local residents as 'ideal, traditional Japanese brides'. "Intimate Encounters", an ethnography of cultural encounters, unravels this paradox by examining the everyday relational dynamics that drive these interactions. Faier remaps Japan, the Philippines, and the United States into what she terms a 'zone of encounters', showing how the meanings of Filipino and Japanese culture and identity are transformed and how these changes are accomplished through ordinary interpersonal exchanges. "Intimate Encounters" provides an insightful new perspective from which to reconsider national subjectivities amid the increasing pressures of globalization, thereby broadening and deepening our understanding of the larger issues of migration and disapora.

目次

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Relations of Cultural Production PART ONE Figures of Desires 1. Sites of Encounter 2. America and Other Stories of Filipina Migration to Japan 3. Japan in the Kiso Valley, the Kiso Valley in Japan PART TWO Terms of Relations 4. Kindred Subjects 5. The Pressures of Home 6. Runaway Stories Epilogue Appendix A Appendix B Notes Bibliography Index

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