Japan is heterogeneous and culturally diverse, both historically through ancient waves of immigration and in recent years due to its foreign relations and internationalization. However, Japan has socially, culturally, politically, and intellectually constructed a distinct and homogeneous identity. More recently, this identity construction has been rightfully questioned and challenged by Japan's culturally diverse groups. This book explores the discursive systems of cultural identities that regenerate the illusion of Japan as a homogeneous nation. Contributors from a variety of disciplines and methodological approaches investigate the ways in which Japan's homogenizing discourses are challenged and modified by counter-homogeneous message systems. They examine the discursive push-and-pull between homogenizing and heterogenizing vectors, found in domestic and transnational contexts and mobilized by various identity politics, such as gender, sexuality, ethnicity, foreign status, nationality, multiculturalism, and internationalization. After offering a careful and critical analysis, the book calls for a complicating of Japan's homogenizing discourses in nuanced and contextual ways, with an explicit goal of working towards a culturally diverse Japan. Taking a critical intercultural communication perspective, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of Japanese Studies, Japanese Culture and Japanese Society.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN-10
1138699373
ISBN-13
9781138699373
eBay Product ID (ePID)
229779922
Product Key Features
Format
Hardback
Language
English
Subject
Linguistics
Dimensions
Weight
544g
Height
234mm
Width
156mm
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
London
Edited by
Satoshi Toyosaki, Shinsuke Eguchi
Series Title
Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
Author Biography
Satoshi Toyosaki is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA. Shinsuke Eguchi is an Assistant Professor of Intercultural Communication in the Department of Communication and Journalism at the University of New Mexico, USA.
Date of Publication
23/02/2017
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Genre
Linguistics
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