Kamada, Laurel D.,

Hybrid identities and adolescent girls : being 'half'' in Japan / Laurel D. Kamada. - xix, 258 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. - Critical language and literacy studies . - Critical language and literacy studies. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Constructing Hybrid Identity in Japan -- Examining Discourses of 'Otherness' in Japan -- The Participants and the Data Collection -- Negotiating Identities -- Claiming Good Difference -- Celebration of Cultural, Symbolic, Linguistic, and Social Capital -- Discursive 'Embodied' Identities of Ethnicity and Gender -- Discursive Construction of Hybrid Identity in Japan: Where has it Taken Us?. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

1847692338 9781847692337 184769232X 9781847692320

2009033792


Identity (Psychology)--Social aspects--Japan--Case studies
Racially mixed children--Ethnic identity.--Japan
Language and culture--Japan--Case studies

HM753 / .K34 2010

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