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Escaping Japan : Reflections on Estrangement and Exile in the Twenty-First Century.

"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,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Guarné, Blai
Otros Autores: Hansen, Paul
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Milton : Taylor and Francis, 2017.
Colección:Japan anthropology workshop series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: escaping Japan inside and outside -- 2 Maid cafés: 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 
505 8 |a 6 Escaping through words: memory and oblivion in the Japanese urban landscape7 â#x80;#x98;Escapingâ#x80;#x99; the Hokkaido homelands: Ainu heteroglossia and the performance of Ainu urban Indigeneity in the Kanto region -- 8 Kyokoâ#x80;#x99;s assemblage: escaping â#x80;#x98;futsű no Nihonjinâ#x80;#x99; in Hokkaido -- 9 â#x80;#x98;Escapeâ#x80;#x99; to a place of familiarity: transforming Japanese tourist imaginings of Taiwan -- 10 Fleeing from constraints: Japanese retirement migrants in Malaysia -- 11 After words 
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