Samurai in the Land of the Gaucho : Transpacific Modernity and Nikkei Literature in Argentina /
"Through close readings of diverse genres (travel writing, essay, novel, short story, and film) Samurai in the Land of the Gaucho yields a multi-layered analysis in order to underline the role Japan has played in both defining and defying Argentine modernity from the twentieth century to the pr...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Nashville :
Vanderbilt University Press,
2023.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword / Ignacio López-Calvo
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Argentine chronicles on Japan: hygiene, aesthetics, and spirituality in Eduardo Wilde and Jorge Max Rohde
- Chapter 2. Empire across the sea: narratives of Japanese imperialism in the writings of Manuel Domecq García and Yoshio Shinya
- Chapter 3. Hybrid Nikkei identity in Hector Dai Sugimura's Buscadores en mis últimas vidas and Maximiliano Matayoshi's Gaijin
- Chapter 4. Gendering Orientalism and female agency in Anna Kazumi Stahl's Flores de un solo día and Alejandra Kamiya's Los árboles caídos tambien son el bosque
- Chapter 5. Visual representations of Japan in contemporary Argentine cinema
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.


