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Author Kamada, Laurel D.

Title Hybrid identities and adolescent girls : being 'half'' in Japan / Laurel D. Kamada
Published Bristol, UK ; Buffalo, NY : Multilingual Matters, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 258 pages) : illustrations
Series Critical language and literacy studies
Critical language and literacy studies.
Contents List of Tables and Figures; Transcription Conventions; Acknowledgments; Preface; Chapter 1 Constructing Hybrid Identity in Japan; Chapter 2 Examining Discourses of 'Otherness' in Japan within a Multiperspective Discourse Analysis Approach; Chapter 3 The Participants and the Data Collection; Chapter 4 Negotiating Identities; Chapter 5 Claiming Good Difference; Rejecting Bad Difference; Chapter 6 Celebration of Cultural, Symbolic, Linguistic and Social Capital; Chapter 7 Discursive 'Embodied' Identities of Ethnicity and Gender
Summary Challenging the myth of Japan as a single-race society, half-Japanese girls are seen struggling to positively manoeuvre themselves and negotiate their identities into positions of contestation and control over marginalizing discourses which disempower them as 'others' within Japanese society as they begin to mature. This work examines these girls
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Identity (Psychology) -- Social aspects -- Japan -- Case studies
Racially mixed children -- Japan -- Ethnic identity
Language and culture -- Japan -- Case studies
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Life Stages -- Adolescence.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Life Stages -- Teenagers.
Identity (Psychology) -- Social aspects
Language and culture
Racially mixed children -- Ethnic identity
Japan
Genre/Form Case studies
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009033792
ISBN 9781847692344
1847692346
1847693881
9781847693884
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9781282657045
9786612657047
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