TY  - CHAP
AB  - The question I am seeking answers to is whether or not we have the ability to re-make ourselves into another person. The research subject is me. More to the point, can I, a white woman of Northern European descent, truly become a member of the Japanese society that I grew to love? My methodological approach to this question is a mixed evocative and analytical autoethnography. Within these pages is a complex tale of illness, racism, and sexual discrimination and how they intersect to create a self. From this creation come the questions of un-creation and re-creation; can I deconstruct my self and identity so as to reconstruct who I want to be? Will my reconstruction be supported by my chosen society? Can I truly belong somewhere, anywhere?
VL  - 37
SN  - 978-1-78052-156-5, 978-1-78052-157-2/0163-2396
DO  - 10.1108/S0163-2396(2011)0000037010
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S0163-2396(2011)0000037010
AU  - Bell Sheri
ED  - Norman K. Denzin
ED  - Ted Faust
PY  - 2011
Y1  - 2011/01/01
TI  - Illness Metaphors, Japan's “Gaijin” Race Philosophy, and the Formation of the Self
T2  - Studies in Symbolic Interaction
T3  - Studies in Symbolic Interaction
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 163
EP  - 193
Y2  - 2024/04/25
ER  -