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Record Nr.

UNINA9910598015403321

Autore

Mack Edward

Titolo

Acquired Alterity : Migration, Identity, and Literary Nationalism / / Edward Mack

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University of California Press, 2022

[s.l.] : , : University of California Press, , 2022

ISBN

9780520383050

0520383052

Edizione

[1 ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

New Interventions in Japanese Studies

Disciplina

981/.61

Soggetti

History / Asia / Japan

Literary Collections / Asian / Japanese

Literary Criticism / Asian / Japanese

History

Anthologies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The State -- 3. Culture -- Ten Stories from Brazil -- 4. Ethnos -- 5. Language -- 6. Conclusions -- Notes -- Appendix 1: Proper Names -- Appendix 2: Koronia-go (loanwords from Portuguese) -- Works Cited -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.   This 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.