Yuko Kawai

A Transnational Critique of Japaneseness (eBook, ePUB)

Cultural Nationalism, Racism, and Multiculturalism in Japan

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this book, Yuko Kawai departs from the common conception of Japan as an ethnically homogenous nation. A Transnational Critique of Japaneseness: Cultural Nationalism, Racism, and Multiculturalism in Japan investigates the construction of Japaneseness from a transnational perspective, examining ways to make Japanese nationhood more inclusive. Kawai analyzes a variety of communicational practices during the first two decades of the twenty-first century while situating Japaneseness in its longer historical transformation from the late nineteenth century. Kawai focuses on governmental and popular ideas of Japaneseness in light of local, global, historical, and contemporary contexts as well as in relation to a diverse array of Others in both Asia and the West.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498599016
• Artikelnr.: 60591711

Autorenporträt

Yuko Kawai is professor in the College of Intercultural Communication at Rikkyo University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: A Transnational Critique for a Multiculturalist Japan
Chapter 1: Japaneseness, Western and Japanese Concepts of Race, and
Modalities of
Racism
Chapter 2: Neoliberal Nationalism and Japaneseness
Chapter 3: Remembering Japanese Americans and Japanese Brazilians for
Japaneseness
Chapter 4: Using China and Korea for Japaneseness: "Hate Books," History,
and the
Grammar of Japanese Racialized Discourse
Chapter 5: Entering the West and Encountering Asia: Trans-East Asian
Friendships Made
in the West