1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910547690203321

Autore

Mack Edward Thomas

Titolo

Acquired Alterity : migration, identity, and literary nationalism / / Edward Thomas Mack

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2022

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (274 pages)

Disciplina

495.6

Soggetti

Japanese language

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- The state : Livraria Yendo and Japanese-language readers in Brazil -- Culture : samurai, spies, and serialized fiction -- Ethnos : tacit promises -- Language : the illusion of linguistic singularity, or the monolingual imagination -- Conclusions : naming collections of text -- Appendix 1: Proper Names -- Appendix 2 : Koronia-go (loanwords from Portuguese).

Sommario/riassunto

"A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. This is the first monograph-length study in English of the Japanese-language literary activities-both reading and writing-of 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, all contextualized within a history of the first decades of that migration. While functioning in part as an introduction to this community and its literature, the book explores issues related to the politics of critiquing literary texts collectively, a logical move that is at the core of many literary studies today. Acquired Alterity presents a case study of one substantial diasporic population and the self-representations of a number of its members, while at the same time providing a challenge to a dominant mode of literary study, in which texts are often explicitly or implicitly understood through a framework of ethno-nationalism. These subjects reveal the logical flaws in this framework through what Edward Mack is calling their "acquired alterity," the process by which their presumed innate identity is



challenged, and the subjects become other to the systems they had conceived themselves as belonging to. The book prompts a reconsideration of the ramifications (and motivations) of literary and cultural analyses of collections of texts and the peoplehood constructs that are often the true objects of that knowledge production"-- Provided by publisher.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910977983103321

Autore

Linguerri Sandra

Titolo

Albert Einstein—Italian Memories : The Bologna Lectures and Other Events / / by Sandra Linguerri, Raffaella Simili

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2024

ISBN

3-031-52950-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2024.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (X, 186 p. 23 illus., 2 illus. in color.)

Collana

History of Physics, , 2730-7557

Disciplina

509

Soggetti

Physics - History

Physicists

Astronomers

Physics - Philosophy

General relativity (Physics)

Special relativity (Physics)

Gravitation

History of Physics and Astronomy

Biographies of Physicists and Astronomers

Philosophical Foundations of Physics and Astronomy

General Relativity

Special Relativity

Gravitational Physics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- The Bologna Lectures -- Albert Einstein-Federigo Enriques Correspondence -- Albert Einstein And Other Italian



Correspondents -- The "Scientia" Investigation And Other Writings.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is dedicated to Einstein’s personal and scientific relationships with Italy, which began as early as adolescence and continued over various stages of his life. It collects together a wealth of historical documentation including the letters in which Einstein recalls having lived as a young man with his family in Lombardy, Pavia and Milan; the texts of three lectures delivered by Einstein in Italian in October 1921 in Bologna at the invitation of the mathematician Federigo Enriques, the only lectures he held in Italy; the correspondence with Enriques and other Italian intellectuals, together with the letter that Einstein sent in 1931 to the Minister of Justice Alfredo Rocco to try to avoid the infamy of the oath of allegiance to the fascist regime imposed by Mussolini on university professors. The book closes with some writings on relativity from 1907 to 1914 (Einstein, Abraham, Corbino, Castelnuovo) and the 1920s debate between pro-relativists and anti-relativists published in the international journal “Scientia”, founded in 1907 by Enriques.