Hybrid Identities and Adolescent Girls: Being 'Half' in Japan (Critical Language and Literacy Studies)

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Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Leaves: 279
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book examines the ethnic, gendered, and embodied 'hybrid' identities of 'half-Japanese' girls in Japan, colourfully narrated through their own voices. The girls struggle to positively construct their identities into positions of control over disempowering discourses of 'otherness', while also celebrating cultural capital as they negotiate their constructed identities of 'Japaneseness', 'whiteness' and 'halfness/doubleness'.

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