Intimate Encounters - by Lieba Faier (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>""Intimate Encounters" is the first 'thick description' of the on-going changes wrought by the recent entry of a non-Japanese population, i.e., Filipina women, into rural Japanese life. It broadens and deepens our understanding of what it might mean to write transnational, diasporic histories."--Vicente L. Rafael, author of "The Promise of the Foreign: Nationalism and the Technics of Translation in the Spanish Philippines" <BR>""Intimate Encounters" is fascinating on a topic both timely and important: cultural encounters at the crossroads of global capital, transnational migration, and national meaning-making. Examining the migratory travel routes of women struck by the desire or need to pursue greater prosperity elsewhere, Faier distinguishes her account by beautiful prose, deft ethnography, and a keen attentiveness to the role played by--and complexity of--desire."--Anne Allison, author of "Millennial Monsters" and "Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan"<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>This groundbreaking study explores the recent dramatic changes brought about in Japan by the influx of a non-Japanese population, Filipina brides. Lieba Faier investigates how Filipina women who emigrated to rural Japan to work in hostess bars-where initially they were widely disparaged as prostitutes and foreigners-came to be identified by the local residents as "ideal, traditional Japanese brides."<i>Intimate Encounters</i>, an ethnography of cultural encounters, unravels this paradox by examining the everyday relational dynamics that drive these interactions. Faier remaps Japan, the Philippines, and the United States into what she terms a "zone of encounters," showing how the meanings of Filipino and Japanese culture and identity are transformed and how these changes are accomplished through ordinary interpersonal exchanges. <i>Intimate Encounters</i> provides an insightful new perspective from which to reconsider national subjectivities amid the increasing pressures of globalization, thereby broadening and deepening our understanding of the larger issues of migration and disapora.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><i>Intimate Encounters</i> is the first 'thick description' of the on-going changes wrought by the recent entry of a non-Japanese population, i.e., Filipina women, into rural Japanese life. It broadens and deepens our understanding of what it might mean to write transnational, diasporic histories.--Vicente L. Rafael, author of <i>The Promise of the Foreign: Nationalism and the Technics of Translation in the Spanish Philippines</i><br /><br /><i>Intimate Encounters</i> is fascinating on a topic both timely and important: cultural encounters at the crossroads of global capital, transnational migration, and national meaning-making. Examining the migratory travel routes of women struck by the desire or need to pursue greater prosperity elsewhere, Faier distinguishes her account by beautiful prose, deft ethnography, and a keen attentiveness to the role played by--and complexity of--desire.--Anne Allison, author of <i>Millennial Monsters</i> and <i>Permitted and Prohibited Desires: Mothers, Comics, and Censorship in Japan</i><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Insightful ethnography of Filipina migrants in rural Japan."-- "Journal Of Japanese Stds" (6/16/2011 12:00:00 AM)<br><br>This is an extraordinary study of the contingency of national culture and an exemplary demonstration of what feminist theorizing of performativity can bring to studies of national identification and belonging.--Geraldine Pratt "AAG Review of Books" (9/27/2013 12:00:00 AM)<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Lieba Faier</b> is Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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