The Mexican transpacific : Nikkei writing, visual arts, and performance /

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"An analysis of writing, as well as visual and performance arts, by Mexicans of Japanese ancestry, which explores Chinese Mexican self-definition and its implications for Mexican national identity"--

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: López-Calvo, Ignacio (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Nashville, Tennessee : Vanderbilt University Press, [2022]
Series:Critical Mexican studies.
Subjects:
Mexican literature > Japanese authors > History and criticism.
Japanese in literature.
Art, Mexican > Japanese influences.
Japanese > Mexico > Ethnic identity.
Japanese > Mexico > Intellectual life.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American
Japanese > Ethnic identity.
Mexico.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Nikkei cultural production and transpacific studies from a Latin Americanist perspective
  • Immigrant, literary negotiations of national identity. Nonaka's memoir: from Captain in the Mexican Revolution to enemy of the state
  • Challenges to Nihonjinron in Nakatani's memoirs
  • Strategic essentialism in Akane's performative Tanka
  • Japanese Mexican visual and performance arts. Re-signifying Yamato-damashii and utopian socialism in the manga Los samuráis de México
  • Nishizawa's biethnic dialectics and the critical stereotyping of his art
  • The transpacific in Akiko's theatrical performance
  • Conclusion: Another past is possible.

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