Bootstraps, Sugar Daddies, Silence and Civility: A Queer Reflection on Japanese Endurance
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Published:2017-09
Issue:
Volume:38
Page:115-122
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ISSN:1206-0143
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Container-title:TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies
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language:en
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Short-container-title:TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies
Abstract
Drawing upon fieldwork with queer Japanese immigrant men in Vancouver, B.C., this article examines their practices of queer gaman, or endurance. Through these ethnographic case studies, I reflect upon the problematic, flattening and orientalist linkages between civility and endurance concerning Japanese subjects. I argue that by reading shared attachments to gaman as a collectivizing affective contour enables us to perceive multiple practices of endurance that actively resist misconceptions of Japanese subjects’ silence and stoicism as civility.
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
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