10.26180/5c75d877bc4b3
KYLIE ANNE MARTIN
KYLIE ANNE
MARTIN
The Regenesis of an ‘Ainu Heart’ through the Performance of Ainu Heteroglossia in Tokyo
Monash University
2019
language and identity
Indigenous Ainu
endangered language
language revitalisation
sociolinguistics
diaspora community
performative art
heteroglossia
oral traditions
Tokyo
Linguistics
2019-03-21 03:09:30
Thesis
https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/thesis/The_Regenesis_of_an_Ainu_Heart_through_the_Performance_of_Ainu_Heteroglossia_in_Tokyo/7755263
Using a case study approach, this thesis explores the ways in which Ainu individuals living in Tokyo are able to celebrate their Indigeneity in the 21<sup>st</sup> century. The adoption of traditional yet innovative ancestral ways connected to their homelands in the northern island of Hokkaido enables them to (re)connect with their Ainu cultural inheritance and spirituality in new and exciting ways in the urban environment of Tokyo. Three peripheral multilingual spaces have emerged in this cityscape as examples of how Ainu living in the present can express their 'Ainu heart' alongside contemporary sociolinguistic realities.