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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Sooudi, Olga Kanzaki (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2014.
Sujets:
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
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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.

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