Japanese New York
Subtitle: migrant artists and self-reinvention on the world stage
By: Olga Kanzaki Sooudi
Publisher: University of Hawaiʻi Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9780824839413; 9780824839420
Subjects: Japanese Foreign workers; Japanese; Artists
Description: "New York City, one of the world's most vibrant and creative cities, is also home to one of the largest overseas Japanese populations in the world. Japanese New York offers an intimate, ethnographic portrait of these creative Japanese migrants living and working in NYC. It is both a story about Japan and a way of examining Japan from beyond its borders. It contributes to international migration studies, to the study of contemporary Japanese culture and societuy, and to the study of Japanese youth, while shedding light on what it means to be a creative migrant worker in the global city today"--Page [4] of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-242) and index.
Table of contents: title: City of stories: finding Japanese New York; title: Pushing the reset button: self-reinvention and the triumphalist Japanese migrant narrative; title: Making art, being an artist: the seductions of creative expression in migrant life; title: Crafting a position: becoming Japanese through the transnational encounter; title: How to live a transnational life: between heaviness and lightness; title: The pathological migrant: failures, escape, and weakness of character.