Hapa Japan: Identities & Representations: Volume 2 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781885030542)

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.

Author: Duncan Ryuken Williams
ISBN-10: 1885030541
ISBN-13: 9781885030542
Publisher: Kaya Press/Ito Center Editions
Language: English
Published: 04/25/2017
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.80lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 01/01/2018