Crafting Selves

In this textually experimental book, Dorinne Kondo advances the theoretical literature on the self and challenges prevailing the Western notions of Japanese work life. Kondo's vivid account of everyday life on the shop floor of the small, family-owned factory where she worked in Tokyo traces the ironies and contradictions in people's construction of self. What emerges from her nuanced analysis is a self distinctly different from the unitary "I" presupposed in Wester... >Voir plus