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dc.contributor.authorMack, Edward
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-18T15:02:23Z
dc.date.available2022-02-18T15:02:23Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifierONIX_20220218_9780520383050_2
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/52940
dc.description.abstractThis 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. “Acquired Alterity is a trailblazing work on an extremely promising new topic of research in Japanese literary studies. Over the last decade we have seen a turn to writings produced in other regions that saw mass immigration from Japan. Grounded in exhaustive research, this book is the first to introduce this enormously interesting and important body of writings to English-language readers.” MICHAEL BOURDAGHS, Robert S. Ingersoll Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studiesen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::2 Language qualifiers::2G East and Southeast Asian languages::2GJ Japaneseen_US
dc.subject.otherAsian Studies
dc.subject.otherJapanese Studies
dc.titleAcquired Alterity
dc.title.alternativeMigration, Identity, and Literary Nationalism
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.1525/luminos.116
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy72f3a53e-04bb-4d73-b921-22a29d903b3b
oapen.relation.isFundedBy9df172e6-23a5-474f-a3d1-58f91f9c98c4
oapen.relation.isbn9780520383050
oapen.relation.isbn9780520383043
oapen.imprintUniversity of California Press
oapen.pages276
oapen.place.publicationOakland
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