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Zainichi (Koreans in Japan)

Diasporic Nationalism and Postcolonial Identity

John Lie author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of California Press

Published:14th Nov '08

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This book traces the origins and transformations of a people-the Zainichi, or Koreans 'residing in Japan'. Using a wide range of arguments and evidence - historical and comparative, political and social, literary and pop-cultural - John Lie reveals the social and historical conditions that gave rise to Zainichi identity, while exploring its vicissitudes and complexity. In the process he sheds light on the vexing topics of diaspora, migration, identity, and group formation.

ISBN: 9780520258204

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm

Weight: 363g

243 pages