LEADER 03785nam 2200637 a 450 001 9910972963903321 005 20251116162857.0 010 $a1-280-48703-8 010 $a9786613582263 010 $a1-61249-213-4 035 $a(OCoLC)794364912 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10563875 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000582514 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11385197 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000582514 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10547337 035 $a(PQKB)10530441 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3119294 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3119294 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10563875 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL358226 035 $a(OCoLC)922968968 035 $a(CKB)3170000000046446 035 $a(BIP)46373228 035 $a(BIP)36087486 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000046446 100 $a20120126d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe closed hand $eimages of the Japanese in modern Peruvian literature /$fRebecca Riger Tsurumi 210 $aWest Lafayette, Ind. $cPurdue University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (331 p.) 225 1 $aPurdue studies in Romance literatures ;$vv. 54 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a1-55753-607-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aIn her book, The Closed Hand: Images of the Japanese in Modern Peruvian Literature, Rebecca Riger Tsurumi captures the remarkable story behind the changing human landscape in Peru at the end of the nineteenth century when Japanese immigrants established what would become the second largest Japanese community in South America. She analyzes how non-Japanese Peruvian narrators unlock the unspoken attitudes and beliefs about the Japanese held by mainstream Peruvian society, as reflected in works written between l966 and 2006. Tsurumi explores how these Peruvian literary giants, including Mario Vargas Llosa, Miguel Gutierrez, Alfredo Bryce Echenique, Carmen Olle, Pilar Dughi, and Mario Bellatin, invented Japanese characters whose cultural differences fascinated and confounded their creators. She compares the outsider views of these Peruvian narrators with the insider perceptions of two Japanese Peruvian poets, Jose Watanabe and Doris Moromisato, who tap personal experiences and memories to create images that define their identities. The book begins with a brief sociohistorical overview of Japan and Peru, describing the conditions in both nations that resulted in Japanese immigration to Peru and concluding in contemporary times. Tsurumi traces the evolution of the terms Orient and Japanese/Oriental and the depiction of Asians in Modernista poetry and in later works by Octavio Paz and Jorge Luis Borges. She analyzes the images of the Japanese portrayed in individual works of modern Peruvian narrative, comparing them with those created in Japanese Peruvian poetry. The book concludes with an appendix containing excerpts from Tsurumis interviews and correspondence in Spanish with writers and poets in Lima and Mexico City. 410 0$aPurdue studies in Romance literatures ;$vv. 54. 606 $aPeruvian literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPeruvian literature$y21st century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aJapanese in literature 615 0$aPeruvian literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPeruvian literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aJapanese in literature. 676 $a860.9/985 700 $aTsurumi$b Rebecca Riger$01864073 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910972963903321 996 $aThe closed hand$94470789 997 $aUNINA