Edward Mack
Acquired Alterity: Migration, Identity, and Literary Nationalism
Acquired Alterity: Migration, Identity, and Literary Nationalism
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A new book explores Japanese-language literary activities of early Japanese migrants to Brazil, challenging ethno-nationalism and revealing "acquired alterity" in self-representations.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 274 pages
Publication date: 01 April 2022
Publisher: University of California Press
This groundbreaking work is the first comprehensive study in English to explore the literary activities of early Japanese migrants to Brazil. It offers a detailed account of the Japanese-language bookstores, serialized newspaper fiction, original creative works, and critical apparatuses that thrived in Brazil before World War II. By examining the reading and writing practices of this diasporic population, this case study challenges the dominant mode of literary study, which often interprets texts through the lens of ethno-nationalism. Through the concept of "acquired alterity," writers in the diaspora reveal the limitations and complexities of this framework, highlighting the unexpected ways in which ethnic identity can be transformed. Acquired Alterity encourages a reevaluation of the implications and motivations behind cultural analyses of texts and the constructions of personhood that are the true subjects of literary knowledge production.
This groundbreaking work is the first comprehensive study in English to explore the literary activities of early Japanese migrants to Brazil. It offers a detailed account of the Japanese-language bookstores, serialized newspaper fiction, original creative works, and critical apparatuses that thrived in Brazil before World War II. By examining the reading and writing practices of this diasporic population, this case study challenges the dominant mode of literary study, which often interprets texts through the lens of ethno-nationalism. Through the concept of "acquired alterity," writers in the diaspora reveal the limitations and complexities of this framework, highlighting the unexpected ways in which ethnic identity can be transformed. Acquired Alterity encourages a reevaluation of the implications and motivations behind cultural analyses of texts and the constructions of personhood that are the true subjects of literary knowledge production.
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780520383043
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