Japanese New York : migrant artists and self-reinvention on the world stage /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Sooudi, Olga Kanzaki (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Foreign workers, Japanese > New York (State) > New York.
Artists > New York (State) > New York.
Japanese > New York (State) > New York.
Travailleurs étrangers japonais > New York (État) > New York.
Artistes > New York (État) > New York.
Japonais > New York (État) > New York.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Artists
Foreign workers, Japanese
Japanese
New York (State) > New York
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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