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

Edited by Maja Zawierzeniec

Publication date:

14 June 2022

Publisher

Anthem Press

Dimensions:

229x153mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781839984044

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.

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 Ryūnosuke 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

“This important volume offers a deeper understanding of the literary and cultural production by and about Nikkeijin. The chapters not only explore novels, short stories, poems and art but also a telenovela and are written by a group of intergenerational scholars. An essential book to those who want to understand the historical, literary, cultural, and social relations between Latin America and Japan in a way that is striking, unique, and academically robust.” — Araceli Tinajero, The City College of New York and the Graduate Center, USA.