Hybrid Identities and Adolescent Girls - Being 'Half' in Japan

This book examines the ethnic, gendered and embodied 'hybrid' identities of 'half-Japanese' girls in Japan. The girls struggle to positively construct their identities into positions of control over disempowering discourses of 'otherness' as they negotiate their constructed identities of 'Japaneseness', 'whiteness' and 'halfness/doubleness'.

About the author

Laurel D. Kamada is a Lecturer Professor at Tohoku University in Japan. She has published in such areas as: bilingualism and multiculturalism in Japan; gender and ethnic studies; marginalised (hybrid and gendered) identities in Japan; and discourses of ethnic embodiment and masculinity. Her other interests include theoretical and methodological discourse analytic approaches to the examination of identity. She serves on the editorial board of the Japan Journal of Multilingualism and Multiculturalism and is on the Advisory Council of the International Gender and Language Association.

Summary

This book examines the ethnic, gendered and embodied ‘hybrid’ identities of ‘half-Japanese’ girls in Japan. The girls struggle to positively construct their identities into positions of control over disempowering discourses of ‘otherness’ as they negotiate their constructed identities of ‘Japaneseness’, ‘whiteness’ and ‘halfness/doubleness’.

Product details

• Authors: Laurel D Kamada, Laurel D. Kamada
• Publisher: Channel View Publications
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.12.2009
• EAN: 9781847692337
• ISBN: 978-1-84769-233-7
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 147 mm x 211 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Series: Critical Language and Literacy Studies; Critical Language and Literacy; Critical Language and Literacy Studies; Critical Language and Literacy
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories