Intercultural Communication in Japan: Theorizing Homogenizing Discourse

Author:   Satoshi Toyosaki ,  Shinsuke Eguchi
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781138351592


Pages:   244
Publication Date:   14 August 2018
Format:   Paperback
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Intercultural Communication in Japan: Theorizing Homogenizing Discourse


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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.

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Author:   Satoshi Toyosaki ,  Shinsuke Eguchi
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138351592


ISBN 10:   1138351598
Pages:   244
Publication Date:   14 August 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

"Introduction: Intercultural Communication in Japan Part I: Gender, Sexuality, and the Body The Affective Politics of the Feminine: An Interpassive Analysis of Japanese Female Comedians ""It’s a Wonderful Single Life."": Constructions and Representations of Female Singleness in Japan’s Contemporary Josei Dorama The Shifting Gender Landscape of Japanese Society Part II: Performance and Queerness Japanese Male-Queer Femininity: An Autoethnographic Reflection on Matsuko Deluxe as an Onē-Kei Talent Bleach in Color: Unpacking Gendered, Queered, and Raced Performances in Anime Part III: Inclusiveness and Otherness The Discursive Pushes and Pulls of J-pop and K-pop in Taiwan: Cultural Homogenization and Identity Co-Optation ‘Hating Korea’ (Kenkan) in Postcolonial Japan Japan’s Internationalization: A Dialectics of Orientalism and Hybridism Part IV: Media and Movement Ishihara Shintaro’s Manga Moral Panic: The Homogenizing Rhetoric of Japanese Nationalism mixi and an Imagined Boundary of Japan Part V: Environment and Movement Historicization of Cherry Blossoms: A Study of Japan’s Homogenizing Discourses Alternative vs. Conventional: Dialectic Relations of the Organic Agriculture Discourse"

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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.

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