Sonia Ryang

Writing Selves in Diaspora

Ethnography of Autobiographics of Korean Women in Japan and the United States

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Writing Selves in Diaspora is a work born out of long-term fieldwork by the author, Sonia Ryang, in Japan and the United States, spanning more than one and a half decades. It offers an unprecedented insight into Korean women's lives and their formation of self in diaspora in Japan and the United States.

Produktdetails

• New Asian Anthropology Nr.1
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 557g
• ISBN-13: 9780739129012
• ISBN-10: 0739129015
• Artikelnr.: 23910488

Autorenporträt

Sonia Ryang is associate professor of anthropology and international studies at the University of Iowa.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 1. Many Ways to Be Korean-and Something
Else: An Inquiry into the Self Chapter 3 2. Love and Diaspora: Romantic
Autobiography of a Korean Woman in Japan Chapter 4 3. A Letter from Afar:
Totalitarianism, Neoliberalism, and Self-Reference Chapter 5 4. Diaspora
and the Ethic of Care: A Note on Disability, Aging, and the Vulnerability
of the De-nationalized Chapter 6 5. Terra Incognita: Family Maps of
Diaspora