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1 online resource |
| Contents |
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 José Watanabe's poetry ; Gender roles, sexuality, and uchinanchu cultural identity in Doris Moromisato's poetry -- Epilogue |
| Summary |
The author rises above the political emergence of the Fujimori phenomenon and uses politics and literature to provide one of the first comprehensive looks at how the Japanese assimilated and inserted themselves into Peruvian culture. Through contemporary writers’ testimonies, essays, fiction, and poetry, the author constructs an account of the cultural formation of Japanese migrant communities. With deftly sensitive interviews and comments, he portrays the difficulties of being a Japanese Peruvian |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Japanese -- Peru -- Ethnic identity
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Japanese -- Peru -- Intellectual life
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Peruvian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Japanese in literature.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Emigration and immigration
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Japanese -- Ethnic identity
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Japanese in literature
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Peruvian literature
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Literatur
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Spanisch
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Japaner
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Peru -- Emigration and immigration -- History
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| Subject |
Peru
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Peru
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0816599874 |
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9780816599875 |
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1299384471 |
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9781299384477 |
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