Writing Selves in Diaspora - Ethnography of Autobiographics of Korean Women in Japan and the

Informationen zum Autor Sonia Ryang is associate professor of anthropology and international studies at the University of Iowa. Klappentext Writing Selves in Diaspora is a work born out of long-term fieldwork by the author, Sonia Ryang, in Japan and the United States, spanning more than one and a half decades. It offers an unprecedented insight into Korean women's lives and their formation of self in diaspora in Japan and the United States. Zusammenfassung Writing Selves in Diaspora is a work born out of long-term fieldwork by the author! Sonia Ryang! in Japan and the United States! spanning more than one and a half decades. It offers an unprecedented insight into Korean women's lives and their formation of self in diaspora in Japan and the United States. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 1. Many Ways to Be Korean-and Something Else: An Inquiry into the Self Chapter 3 2. Love and Diaspora: Romantic Autobiography of a Korean Woman in Japan Chapter 4 3. A Letter from Afar: Totalitarianism, Neoliberalism, and Self-Reference Chapter 5 4. Diaspora and the Ethic of Care: A Note on Disability, Aging, and the Vulnerability of the De-nationalized Chapter 6 5. Terra Incognita: Family Maps of Diaspora

Product details

• Authors: Sonia Ryang
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.08.2008
• EAN: 9780739129012
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-2901-2
• No. of pages: 246
• Series: New Asian Anthropology; New Asian Anthropology
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories