Escaping Japan : reflections on estrangement and exile in the twenty-first century
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Escaping Japan : reflections on estrangement and exile in the twenty-first century
(Japan anthropology workshop series : (JAWS))
Routledge, 2019
- : pbk
Available at 3 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The idea that Japan is a socially homogenous, uniform society has been increasingly challenged in recent years. This book takes the resulting view further by highlighting how Japan, far from singular or monolithic, is socially and culturally complex. It engages with particular life situations, exploring the extent to which personal experiences and lifestyle choices influence this contemporary multifaceted nation-state. Adopting a theoretically engaged ethnographic approach, and considering a range of "escapes" both physical and metaphorical, this book provides a rich picture of the fusions and fissures that comprise Japan and Japaneseness today.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Escaping Japan Inside and Out
2. Maid Cafes: Affect, Life and Escape in Akihabara
3. The Burden of Sobriety: Alcoholism and Masculinity in Japan
4. Robot Dreams: Play, Escape and Masculine-Romanticism in Japanese Techno-Culture
5. The Globalization of Melancholic Affect: Escaping Soft Power through the Literature of Murakami Haruki
6. Escaping through Words: Memory and Oblivion in the Japanese Urban Landscape
7. 'Escaping' the Hokkaido Homelands: Ainu Heteroglossia and the Performance of Ainu Urban Indigeneity in the Kanto Region
8. Kyoko's Assemblage: Escaping 'futsu no nihonjin' in Hokkaido
9. 'Escape' to a Place of Familiarity: Transforming Japanese Tourist Imaginings of Taiwan
10. Fleeing from Constraints: Japanese Retirement Migrants in Malaysia
11. After Words, Tien-Shi 'Lara' Chen, Blai Guarne, Paul Hansen, Susanne Klien
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