Transpacific Nonencounters
Racial Disconnects Across Twentieth-Century Japan and Mexico
Abstract
Transpacific Nonencounters works across the seemingly unconnected histories of race and nation in modern Mexico and Japan, showing the commonalities in the way race figures in their state and social formations through a method Andrea Mendoza calls the theory of nonencounter
Keywords
Transpacific studies; Literary criticism; Intellectual history; Global modernity; Nationalism; Empire; Global racial politics; Global Cold War; Imperialism; Racial philosophy; Settler colonialism; Transpacific geopolitics; Mansculinity; Indigenous critique; Racial masquerade; Ismael Rodríguez; Oe Kenzaburo; Jodi Byrd; Trauma studies; Black critique; Intertextuality; Postwar literature; Abe Kobo; Carlos Fuentes; Mare Advertencia Lírika; Kum SoniDOI
10.1215/9781478062202ISBN
9781478062202, 9781478062202, 9781478094593, 9781478033738, 9781478038627Publisher
Duke University PressPublisher website
https://www.dukeupress.edu/Publication date and place
Duke University Press, 2026Classification
Colonialism and imperialism


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