Koreans in Japan: Critical Voices from the MarginSonia Ryang Koreans in Japan are a barely known minority, not only in the West but also within Japan itself. This pioneering study analyses these relations in the context of the particular conditions and constraints that Koreans face in Japanese society. |
Contents
resident Koreans in Japan | 1 |
The politics of legal status the equation of nationality with ethnonational identity | 13 |
The North Korean homeland of Koreans in Japan | 32 |
Political correctness postcoloniality and the self representation of Koreanness in Japan | 55 |
Mothers write Ikaino | 74 |
Reading against the bourgeois and national bodies transcultural bodypolitics in Yu Miris textual representations | 103 |
Cultural identity in the work of Yi Yangji | 119 |
Korean ethnic schools in occupied Japan 194552 | 140 |
Korean children textbooks and educational practices in Japanese primary schools | 157 |
Kids between nations ethnic classes in the construction of Korean identities in Japanese public schools | 175 |
Ordinary Korean Japanese | 197 |
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