Japanese New York : migrant artists and self-reinvention on the world stage /
Spend time in New York City and, soon enough, you will encounter some of the Japanese nationals who live and work there--young English students, office workers, painters, and hairstylists. New York City, one of the world's most vibrant and creative cities, is also home to one of the largest ove...
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaiʻi Press,
2014.
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Table des matières:
- City of stories: finding Japanese New York
- Pushing the reset button: self-reinvention and the triumphalist Japanese migrant narrative
- Making art, being an artist: the seductions of creative expression in migrant life
- Crafting a position: becoming Japanese through the transnational encounter
- How to live a transnational life: between heaviness and lightness
- The pathological migrant: failures, escape, and weakness of character.