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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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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Sooudi, Olga Kanzaki (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: 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.