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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825324203321

Autore

Lopez-Calvo Ignacio

Titolo

The affinity of the eye [[electronic resource] ] : writing Nikkei in Peru / / Ignacio Lopez-Calvo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tucson, : University of Arizona Press, 2013

ISBN

1-299-38447-1

0-8165-9987-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Disciplina

305.8968/85

Soggetti

Japanese - Peru - Ethnic identity

Japanese - Peru - Intellectual life

Peruvian literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Japanese in literature

Peru Emigration and immigration History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction --Nikkei testimonials. Seiichi Higashide's Adiós to tears: flexible citizenship, American war propaganda, and the birth of anti-Japanese hysteria in Peru -- Okinawa, El reino de La Cortesía and Okinawa: un siglo en el Perú: dialogues with nationalism and renegotiations of (sub)ethnicity -- Nikkei narratives. Nippo-Peruvian self-identification in Augusto Higa's La iluminación de Katzuo Nakamatsu and Japón no da dos oportunidades -- Lima + Seville = Okinawa: the Japanese as caricature in Fernando Iwasaki's España, aparta de mí estos premios --Carlos Yushimito's post-nationalist and post-identitarian short stories -- Nikkei poetry. Japanese culture and the politics of cultural belonging in Jose Watanabe's poetry -- Gender roles, sexuality, and uchinanchu cultural identity in Doris Moromisato's poetry -- Epilogue.