Full Description
In telling the personal stories of Australians in Japan and Japanese in Australia, this book explores issues of race, identity, and ambition in times of war and peace. The essays collected here illuminate a variety of fascinating lives and individual achievements, from trade to literature and the arts, the media, and the justice system. For over 150 years, people have been shaped by and contributed to the breadth, strength, and diversity of the Australia-Japan relationship. As the editors and their contributors contend, a transnational relationship is ultimately constituted by hundreds of untold, seesawing, and yet fruitful, personal encounters that overcome prejudice, and blur the boundaries set by official and unofficial racial mores.
Contents
Henry Black p. 29 Frank A. Nankivell's Japan : from means to marker p. 51 Peter Russo and Japan : a controversial relationship p. 73 Paths of wrath and reconciliation : homophobia, Japan and the life-work of Harold Stewart p. 89 A matter of perspective : two Australian-Japanese families' encounters with white Australia, 1888-1946 p. 113 The Hirodo story : a three generational family case study of bi-cultural living p. 135 Ten years in a Victorian jail : the convict as the 'other' p. 155 Theatres of discipline in the age of consensual euphoria : performing globalisation and 'empire' in recent contemporary performance in Australia and Japan p. 171
