Flirting with the Foreign: Interracial Sex in Japan's "International" Age

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Introduction: Tracking the Global/Local 1
4. I GLOBALIZATIONS
5. The Global in the Local 21
6. Localism, Globalism, and Cultural Identity 46
7. A Borderless World? From Colonialism to Transnationalism and the Decline of the Nation-State 78
8. Real Virtuality 107
9. Phobic Spaces and Liminal Panics: Independent Transnational Film Genre 119
10. From the Imperial Family to the Trans-national Imaginary: Media Spectatorship in the Age of Globalization 145
11. II LOCAL CONJUNCTIONS
12. Flirting with the Foreign: Interracial Sex in Japan's "International" Age 173
13. Desiring the Involuntary: Machinic Assemblage and Transnationalism in Deleuze and Robocop2 193
14. In Whose Interest? Transnational Capital and the Production of Multiculturalism in Canada 219
15. III GLOBAL/LOCAL DISRUPTIONS
16. Globalism's Localisms 255
17. The Oceanic Feeling and the 284 Regional Imaginary 284
18. GoodbyeParadise:Global/Localism in the American Pacific 312
19. The Case of the Emergent Cultural Criticism Columns in Taiwan's Newspaper Literary Supplements: Global/Local Dialectics in Contemporary Taiwanese Public Culture 337
20. South Korea as Social Space 348
21. Afterword: "Global/Local" Memory and Thought 372
22. Index 387
23. Contributors 397