Zawierzeniec Transpacific Connections: Literary and Cultural Production by and about Latin American Nikkeijin

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-83998-406-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 110 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Reihe: Anthem Studies in Latin American Literature and Culture

Transpacific Connections: Literary and Cultural Production by and about Latin American Nikkeijin 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. This book is an intellectual, artistic and social journey through Japan, Latin America and Europe, brought by both experienced and promising researchers who have conducted studies, projects and research all over the globe and have worked in multicultural and multilinguistic environments.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zawierzeniec, Maja

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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
Nora Juurmaa
Chapter 2. Contested Modernities: Representations of the Brazilian Dekasegi and the Nipponization of Brazil
in Nikkei Cultural Production Ignacio López-Calvo
Chapter 3. When Gustave Flaubert Meets Ryunosuke Akutagawa: “Corazón Sencillo” by Augusto Higa
Oshiro. The Short Story of a Peruvian Nikkei Writer
Barbara Mauthes
Chapter 4. Japanese Prints in Tablada’s Writings: Cultural and Media Transposition in ‘El poema de Okusai’ Luyue Wang
Chapter 5. The Telenovela Oyuki’s Sin (El Pecado De Oyuki): Las Realidades Del Otro or Mexico through A
Japanized Lens Maja Zawierzeniec
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Maja Zawierzeniec, Ph.D., is a Polish Mexicanist, translator, TEDxWarsawWomen speaker and TEDxMarszalkowska organizer, and a trilingual poet, who has collaborated with a number of renowned Polish and foreign universities and other institutions as a lecturer and in a variety of cultural, social and artistic projects. She has published La mujerenel mundolatinoamericano. Literatura, historia, sociedad – elcaso de México (2015); Las voces sordas. El capital creativo del narco México contemporáneo (1985-2015) (two editions: 2016 and 2018), y El glosarioesencial del lenguaje del narcoenel México contemporáneo (2018) as well as four poetry books and several research articles (Mexican culture and literature, narcoculture and narcoliterature, relations between Mexico and East Asia and linguistics).