Hybrid Identities and Adolescent Girls: Being 'Half' in Japan

[Laurel Kamada]

Hello friends,
I apologize if you have already received this message.

I would like to announce the release of my new book. Some of you have asked how to get ahold of it.
 
It is entitled:  "Hybrid Identities and Adolescent Girls: Being 'Half' in Japan
 
(Multilingual Matters, Inc.  2010)


Mixed-race identities in Japan pose a host of intriguing questions that need to be demystified. Hybrid Identities and Adolescent Girls
presents a groundbreaking study that addresses intersections of race, gender, class, and language among teen girls of Caucasian and
Japanese heritage. Kamada’s fascinating analysis enables the readers to understand how “doubleness” not only constitutes their
Japanese/White identities but also signifies dual meanings of bullied/envied, grotesque/cool, and othered/privileged. This unique study
provides the field with innovative knowledge.
Ryoko Kubota, University of British Columbia, Canada


This timely, fascinating and academically rigorous book provides a rich contribution to the study of shifting identity, gender and
ethnicity and how a linguistic approach can shed light on these. Having lived half of her own life in Japan, and as the parent of a
‘multi-ethnic’ child, Laurel Kamada writes from a position of strength and understanding. Her study is a qualitative, longitudinal one,
drawing on a variety of analytical frameworks. The data shows us the lived experiences of these ‘multi-ethnic’ girls, from their
tribulations to their celebrations of self. Importantly, Kamada never underestimates the fine-grained complexity of her topic.
Jane Sunderland, Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University, UK


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’.


Contents
Chapter 1: Constructing Hybrid Identity in Japan
Chapter 2: Examining Discourses of ‘Otherness’ in Japan
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
Chapter 8: Discursive Construction of Hybrid Identity in Japan: Where has it Taken Us?


Laurel D. Kamada is a Lecturer Professor at Tohoku University in Japan. She has published in such areas as: bilingualism
and multiculturalism in Japan; gender and ethnic studies; marginalised (hybrid and gendered) identities in Japan; and
discourses of ethnic embodiment and masculinity. Her other interests include theoretical and methodological discourse
analytic approaches to the examination of identity. She serves on the editorial board of the Japan Journal of Multilingualism
and Multiculturalism and is on the Advisory Council of the International Gender and Language Association.


Critical Language and Literacy Studies 210 x 148 (A5) 23/12/2009 c 280pp
Hbk ISBN 9781847692337 £64.95 / US$119.95 / CAN$119.95 / €79.95
Pbk ISBN 9781847692320 £24.95 / US$49.95 / CAN$49.95 / €29.95
Ebook ISBN 9781847692344 £64.95 / US$119.95 / CAN$119.95 / €79.95
Subject (BIC): JFSL Ethnic Studies, JFSJ Gender Studies, JM Psychology, JMS The Self, Ego, Identity,
Level: Postgraduate, Research / Professional Territory: World Cat: 1000
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 The publisher's page is:
 
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The website offers information and secure ordering of their books
 at 20% discount with delivery to any address in the world.
 
The book is also available on www.amazon.com <http://www.amazon.com/> . 
 
The flyer for the book with an order form, prices, and other information is attached.
 
I would love to hear some feedback from anyone who actually reads it.
Cheers,
Laurel Kamada
 











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