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084			_aonline - DeGruyter
245	0	0	_aUnpredictable Agents : _bThe Making of Japan’s Americanists during the Cold War and Beyond / _ced. by Mari Yoshihara.
264		1	_aHonolulu : _bUniversity of Hawaii Press, _c[2021]
264		4	_c©2021
300			_a1 online resource (238 p.) : _b9 b&w illustrations
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505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tContents -- _tAcknowledgments -- _tIntroduction -- _tPART I America, Japan, Okinawa -- _t1 Memories of an Okinawan Americanist -- _t2 American Paralysis: Floating Homeland, Family, and Masculinity -- _t3 On Becoming an Okinawan and a Feminist: My Path to an Americanist Career -- _tPART II FAMILY TIES -- _t4 Learning “America” from the Mennonites -- _t5 The Land She Could Never Call Home Again: “America” in My Family History -- _t6 Navigating the Sea of Fatherhood across the Pacific -- _tPART III EMBODIED LIVES, GROUNDED CAREERS -- _t7 The Accidental Mirror: The Shine and Shatter of My American Dream -- _t8 An Americanist from a Different Shore, and Gazing Back at Japan -- _t9 Loneliness, Laughter, and Belonging: A Feminist View of an Asian in America -- _tPART IV DIFFERENT SHORES, MULTIPLE BORDERS -- _t10 An Accidental Historian: My Journey in Research on Japanese North American Community Activism -- _t11 An Americanist Who Sees the US from the Peripheries -- _t12 Making of a Transpacific Americanist via Latin America: Myself Discovered through Immigration History -- _tContributors -- _tIndex
506	0		_arestricted access _uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec _fonline access with authorization _2star
520			_aIn Unpredictable Agents, twelve Japanese scholars of American studies tell their stories of how they encountered “America” and came to dedicate their careers to studying it. People in postwar Japan have experienced “America” in a number of ways—through literature, material goods, popular culture, foodways, GIs, missionaries, art, political figures, celebrities, and business. As the Japanese public wrestled with a complex mixture of admiration and confusion, yearning and repulsion, closeness and alienation toward the US, Japanese scholars specializing in American studies have become interlocutors in helping their compatriots understand the country. In scholarly literature, these intellectuals are often understood as complicit agents in US Cold War liberalism. By focusing on the human dimensions of the intellectuals’ lives and careers, Unpredictable Agents resists such a deterministic account of complicity while recognizing the relationship between power and knowledge and the historical and structural conditions in which these scholars and their work emerged. How did these scholars encounter “America” in the first place, and what exactly constitutes the “America” they have experienced? How did they come to be Americanists, and what does being Americanists mean for them? In short, what are the actual experiences of Japan’s Americanists, and what are their relationships to “America”? Reflecting both the interlocked web of politics, economics, and academics, as well as the evolving contours of Japan’s Americanists, the essays highlight the diverse paths through which these individuals have come to be “Americanists” and the complex meanings that identity carries for them. The stories reveal the obvious yet often neglected fact that Japanese scholars neither come from the same backgrounds nor occupy similar identities solely because of their shared ethnicity and citizenship. The authors were born in the period ranging from the 1940s to the 1980s in different parts of Japan—from Hokkaido to Okinawa—and raised in diverse familial and cultural environments, which shaped their identities as “Japanese” and their encounters with “America” in quite different ways. Together, the essays illustrate the complex positionalities, fluid identities, ambivalent embrace, and unpredictable agency of Japan’s Americanists who continue to chart their own course in and across the Pacific.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022)
650		0	_aAmericanists _zJapan _vBiography.
650		7	_aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / General. _2bisacsh
700	1		_aIijima, Mariko _eautore
700	1		_aItatsu, Yuko _eautore
700	1		_aIzumi, Masumi _eautore
700	1		_aKina, Ikue _eautore
700	1		_aKitamura, Hiroshi _eautore
700	1		_aNakatani, Sanae _eautore
700	1		_aSekiguchi, Yohei _eautore
700	1		_aSenaha, Eijun _eautore
700	1		_aTokunaga, Yu _eautore
700	1		_aWake, Naoko _eautore
700	1		_aYaguchi, Yujin _eautore
700	1		_aYamazato, Katsunori _eautore
700	1		_aYoshihara, Mari _eautore _ecuratore
850			_aIT-RoAPU
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9780824890018?locatt=mode:legacy
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780824890018
856	4	2	_3Cover _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780824890018/original
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