Acquired Alterity : Migration, Identity, and Literary Nationalism.
Title:
Acquired Alterity : Migration, Identity, and Literary Nationalism.
Author:
Mack, Edward.
ISBN:
9780520383050
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (276 pages)
Series:
New Interventions in Japanese Studies ; v.3
New Interventions in Japanese Studies
Contents:
Cover -- Lilienthal imprint -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The State -- Japanese-Language Readers Outside Japan -- 1908-24: The Early Years of the Japanese in Brazil -- 1924-34: The Years of Japanese State-Sponsored Migration -- 1934-41: A Sizable, Stabilized Marketplace -- Territorialization and Japanese Literature -- Chapter 3. Culture -- Background -- Japanese-Language Newspapers in Brazil -- Duels in the Presence of the Shogun Iemitsu -- The Early Years: Historical Fiction, 1917-33 -- Illegal Printing -- Experimentation and Transition, 1932-34 -- A New Order, 1934-41 -- Origins of the Serialized Works -- Periodization of Prewar Serializations -- Notable Exceptions -- Translations -- Japanese Literatures -- Ten Stories from Brazil -- "An Age of Speculative Farming" -- "The Death of a Certain Settler" -- "Natsuyo" -- "Placement" -- "Tumbleweeds" -- "After We Had Settled" -- "Revenge" -- "Vortices" -- "Ashes" -- "A Certain Ghetto" -- Chapter 4. Ethnos -- Racial Other as Instrument of Justice -- Intraracial Betrayal -- Valorizing Heterogeneity -- Extremes of Alterity and Identity -- Japanese Literature as Political Project -- Chapter 5. Language -- Strategies for Representing Linguistic Diversity -- Nihongo bungaku: Japanese-Language Literature -- Chapter 6. Conclusions -- Naming Collections of Texts -- Notes -- Appendix 1: Proper Names -- Appendix 2: Koronia-go (loanwords from Portuguese) -- Works Cited -- Index.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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