Hapa Japan: History (Volume 2) |
Hapa Japan: History (Volume 2)
Kaya Press
2017-02-28
400 pages
Paperback ISBN: 9781885030542
Edited by:
Duncan Ryūken Williams, Associate Professor of Religion and East Asian Languages and Cultures
University of Southern California
The film Kiku and Isamu (1959) was one of the first cinematic depictions of mixed-race children in postwar Japan, telling the story of two protagonists facing abandonment by two different Black GI fathers and ostracism from Japanese society. Bringing together studies of the representations of the Hapa Japanese experience in culture, Hapa Japan: Identities & Representations (Volume 2) tackles everything from Japanese and American films like Kiku and Isamu to hybrid graphic novels featuring mixed-race characters. From Muslim Japanese-Pakistani children in a Tokyo public school to “Blasian” youth at the AmerAsian School close to a US military base in Okinawa, the Hapa experience is multiple, and its cultural representations accordingly are equally diverse. This anthology is the first publication to attempt to map this wide range of Hapa representations in film, art and society.
Tags: Akemi Johnson, Annmaria Shimabuku, Duncan R. Williams, Duncan Ryûken Williams, Frédéric Roustan, Jane H. Yamashiro, Japan, Kaya Press, Kent Ono, Kevin Fellezs, Laura Kina, LeiLani Nishime, Masako Kudo, Mitzi Uehara-Carter, Paul Christensen, Sayuri Arai, Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu, Tamaki Watarai, Tim Greer, Velina Hasu Houston, Zelideth María Rivas