Let’s Travel to a place of no place

Let’s Travel to a place of no place
Junichi Isomae 

186 mm × 130 mm
190 pages
JPY 1,700
ISBN 9784790717867
Pub date: November 2023

You may be thinking, “It’s not cool to be friendless,” or “It’s embarrassing not to have place to stay”. Let’s think thoroughly about the uncomfortable feeling of not belonging anywhere. This is a book that takes you on a journey around the world using the ideas of outsiders as a clue.

Reviews
“If you are having a hard time right now, you are standing on the edge of freedom. To be nowhere is that you can go anywhere you want. This book is a map of a place that does not yet exist, written for you.” ―Rin Saito, poet

“As I met a diverse group of people, I felt my heart lighten up.” ― Nishinihon Shimbun

“There are things you can see and people you can meet by putting yourself in the gap, the crevice, the uncomfortable halfway point.” ―Akehiro Shirai, poet

Table of Contents
Introduction

Part 1 Being an outsider

Chapter 1 The alien experience: Soseki Natsume and David Bowie　
Chapter 2 What is identity: Stuart Hall and Homi K. Bhabha
Chapter 3 Living transnationally: Benedict Anderson and Gayatri Spivak
Chapter 4 Encountering the other: Emmanuel Levinas, Hannah Arendt, and Auschwitz

Part 2 Searching for “You”

Chapter 5 The other in myself: Jimi Hendrix
Chapter 6 Taking on the uncomfortable: Sigmund Freud and Edward Said
Chapter 7 I’ll stay with you even if I don’t understand you: C.G. Jung, his grandson, and the Great East Japan Earthquake
Chapter 8 How to deliver the message: Talal Asad and Naoki Sakai

Part3 Away from Japan

Chapter 9 Keep our distance from Japan: Nagao Nishikawa and Haruki Murakami　
Chapter 10 Where is home: Yun Haedong and the Postcolonial　
Chapter 11 Invisible places in Japan: burakumin area and taiko
Chapter 12 Surviving lack of place: Seita Toma and East Asia

Conclusion

Author Information
Junichi Isomae
Professor, International Research Center for Japanese Studies. Specialised in religious studies and critical theory.