The Mexican Transpacific

Nikkei Writing, Visual Arts, and Performance
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-0-8265-0493-7
Verlag: Vanderbilt University Press

Buch, Englisch, 308 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 127 mm x 203 mm

Reihe: Critical Mexican Studies

The Mexican Transpacific: Nikkei Writing, Visual Arts, and Performance considers the influence of a Japanese ethnic background or lack thereof in the writing of several twentieth and twenty-first century Mexican authors, directors, and artists. In spite of the unquestionable influence of the Nikkei communities in Mexico’s history and culture, and the numerous historical studies recently published on these two communities, the study of their cultural production and, therefore, their self-definition and how they conceive themselves has been, for the most part, overlooked.

This book, a continuation of the author's previous research on cultural production by Latin American authors of Asian ancestry, focuses mostly on texts, films, and artworks produced by Asian Mexicans, rather than on the Japanese or Chinese as mere objects of study. However, it will also be contrasted with the representation of Asians by Mexican authors with no Asian ancestry. With this interdisciplinary study, the author hopes to bring to the fore this silenced community's voice and agency to historicize their own experience.

The Mexican Transpacific is a much needed contribution to the fields of contemporary Mexican studies, Latin American studies, race and ethnic studies, transnational Asian studies, and Japanese diaspora studies, in light of the theoretical perspectives of cultural studies, the decolonial turn, and postcolonial theory.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Foreword by Emma Nakatani
- Introduction: Nikkei Cultural Production and Transpacific Studies from a Latin Americanist Perspective
- Part I: Immigrant, Literary Negotiations of National Identity
- 1. Nonaka's Memoir: From Captain in the Mexican Revolution to Enemy of the State
- 2. Challenges to Nihonjinron in Nakatani's Memoirs
- 3. Strategic Essentialism in Akane's Performative Tanka
- Part II: Japanese Mexican Visual and Performance Arts
- 4. Re-signifying Yamato-damashii and Utopian Socialism in the Manga Los samurÁis de MÉxico
- 5. Nishizawa's Biethnic Dialectics and the Critical Stereotyping of His Art
- 6. The Transpacific in Akiko's Theatrical Performance
- Conclusion. Another Past Is Possible
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ignacio LÓpez-Calvo is a professor and UC Merced Presidential Chair in the Humanities at UC Merced.