Japanese New York: Migrant Artists and Self-reinvention on the World Stage 9780824847814

Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. City of Stories: Finding Japanese New York
2. Pushing the Reset Button: Self-Reinvention and the Triumphalist Japanese Migrant Narrative
3. Making Art, Being an Artist: The Seductions of Creative Expression in Migrant Life
4. Crafting a Position: Becoming Japanese through the Transnational Encounter
5. How to Live a Transnational life: Between Heaviness and Lightness
6. The Pathological Migrant: Failures, Escape, and Weakness of Character
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index