Transpacific connections : literary and cultural production by and about Latin American Nikkeijin / edited by Maja Zawierzeniec.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zawierzeniec, Maja, editor.

Series:

Anthem Studies in Latin American Literature and Culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japanese literature--Latin America--History and criticism.

Japanese literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 102 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

London : Anthem Press, 2022.

Summary:

<i>Transpacific Connections: Literary and Cultural Production by and about Latin American Nikkeijin</i> is a cross-cultural work combining Latin American and Japanese studies. It contains original research on social and cultural relations between Japan and Latin America, ranging from Japanese inspirations in one of the Mexican most renowned poets, Brazilian dekasegi (temporary workers in Japan) described in a variety of testimonials, Japanese community in Brazil and its literary production, and a Mexican telenovela, inspired by the Japanese culture to European inspirations in a Nikkei Peruvian writer, Higa Oshiro.

Contents:

Cover

Half-Title

Title

Copyright

Contents

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Chapter 1. The "Japanese Community" in Brazil and its Literary Production: The Functioning of "Death" in Matsui Tarô's Literary Fiction

Chapter 2. Contested Modernities: Representations of the Brazilian Dekasegi and the Nipponization of Brazil in Nikkei Cultural Production

Chapter 3. When Gustave Flaubert Meets Ryūnosuke Akutagawa: "Corazón Sencillo" by Augusto Higa Oshiro. The Short Story of a Peruvian Nikkei Writer

Chapter 4. Japanese Prints in Tablada's Writings: Cultural and Media Transposition in 'El poema de Okusai'

Chapter 5. The Telenovela Oyuki's Sin (El Pecado De Oyuki): Las Realidades Del Otro or Mexico through A Japanized Lens

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Dec 2022).

ISBN:

9781839984051

1839984058

9781839984068

1839984066

OCLC:

1321803442