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