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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Autor principal: Sooudi, Olga Kanzaki (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Japanese.
Foreign workers, Japanese.
Artists.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Japonais > New York (État) > New York.
Artistes > New York (État) > New York.
Travailleurs etrangers japonais > New York (État) > New York.
Japanese > New York (State) > New York.
Artists > New York (State) > New York.
Foreign workers, Japanese > New York (State) > New York.
New York (State) > New York.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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