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Zusatztext "This is an extraordinary study of the contingency of national culture and an exemplary demonstration of what feminist theorizing of performativity can bring to studies of national identification and belonging." Informationen zum Autor Lieba Faier is Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of California! Los Angeles. Klappentext " Intimate Encounters is the first 'thick description' of the on-going changes wrought by the recent entry of a non-Japanese population! i.e.! Filipina women! into rural Japanese life. It broadens and deepens our understanding of what it might mean to write transnational! diasporic histories."-Vicente L. Rafael! author of The Promise of the Foreign: Nationalism and the Technics of Translation in the Spanish Philippines " Intimate Encounters is fascinating on a topic both timely and important: cultural encounters at the crossroads of global capital! transnational migration! and national meaning-making. Examining the migratory travel routes of women struck by the desire or need to pursue greater prosperity elsewhere! Faier distinguishes her account by beautiful prose! deft ethnography! and a keen attentiveness to the role played by-and complexity of-desire."-Anne Allison! author of Millennial Monsters and Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers! Comics! and Censorship in Japan Zusammenfassung Explores the changes brought about in Japan by the influx of a non-Japanese population, Filipina brides. This book investigates how Filipina women who emigrated to rural Japan to work in hostess bars - where initially they were disparaged as prostitutes and foreigners - came to be identified by the local residents as traditional Japanese brides. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Relations of Cultural Production PART ONE Figures of Desires 1. Sites of Encounter 2. America and Other Stories of Filipina Migration to Japan 3. Japan in the Kiso Valley! the Kiso Valley in Japan PART TWO Terms of Relations 4. Kindred Subjects 5. The Pressures of Home 6. Runaway Stories Epilogue Appendix A Appendix B Notes Bibliography Index ...
