03179nam 22005773a 450 991059801540332120240912160241.097805203830500520383052https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.116(CKB)5420000000432322(ScCtBLL)d710c009-a3b6-477d-83f9-24155bc09100(DE-B1597)585084(DE-B1597)9780520383050(PPN)268259410(MiAaPQ)EBC31594287(Perlego)4432589(oapen)doab74927(EXLCZ)99542000000043232220220304i20222021 uu enguru||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAcquired Alterity Migration, Identity, and Literary Nationalism /Edward Mack1 ed.University of California Press2022[s.l.] :University of California Press,2022.1 online resourceNew Interventions in Japanese StudiesFrontmatter --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 --IndexA 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.New Interventions in Japanese StudiesHistory / Asia / JapanbisacshLiterary Collections / Asian / JapanesebisacshLiterary Criticism / Asian / JapanesebisacshHistoryAnthologieslcgftHistory / Asia / JapanLiterary Collections / Asian / JapaneseLiterary Criticism / Asian / JapaneseHistory.981/.61Mack Edward1224593ScCtBLLScCtBLLBOOK9910598015403321Acquired Alterity2843158UNINA