Acquired Alterity : Migration, Identity, and Literary Nationalism / Edward Mack.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mack, Edward, author.

Series:

New Interventions in Japanese Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Genre:

Anthologies

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

1 ed.

Place of Publication:

University of California Press 2022

[s.l.] : University of California Press, 2022.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. This is the first book-length study in English of the Japanese-language literary activities of early Japanese migrants to Brazil. It provides a detailed history of Japanese-language bookstores, serialized newspaper fiction, original creative works, and critical apparatuses that existed in Brazil prior to World War II. This case study of the reading and writing of one diasporic population challenges the dominant mode of literary study, in which texts are often explicitly or implicitly understood through a framework of ethno-nationalism. Self-representations by writers in the diaspora reveal flaws in this prevailing framework through what Edward Mack calls "acquired alterity," in which expectations about the stability of ethnic identity are subverted in surprising ways. Acquired Alterity encourages a reconsideration of the ramifications (and motivations) of cultural analyses of texts and the constructions of peoplehood that are often the true objects of literary knowledge production.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

2. The State

3. Culture

Ten Stories from Brazil

4. Ethnos

5. Language

6. Conclusions

Notes

Appendix 1: Proper Names

Appendix 2: Koronia-go (loanwords from Portuguese)

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520383050

0520383052

OCLC:

1260692295

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.116