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

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Guarné, Blai
Other Authors: Hansen, Paul
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Milton : Taylor and Francis, 2017.
Series:Japan anthropology workshop series.
Subjects:
2000-2099
Manners and customs
Japan > Social life and customs > 21st century.
Japon > Mœurs et coutumes > 21e siècle.
Japan
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • 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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