Title Acquired alterity : migration, identity, and literary nationalism / Edward Mack

Published Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations, maps Series New interventions in Japanese studies ; 3 New interventions in Japanese studies ; 3. Contents Introduction -- The state : Livraria Yendo and Japanese-language readers in Brazil -- Culture : samurai, spies, and serialized fiction -- Ethnos : tacit promises -- Language : the illusion of linguistic singularity, or the monolingual imagination -- Conclusions : naming collections of text -- Appendix 1: Proper Names -- Appendix 2 : Koronia-go (loanwords from Portuguese) Summary "A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. This is the first monograph-length study in English of the Japanese-language literary activities-both reading and writing-of 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, all contextualized within a history of the first decades of that migration. While functioning in part as an introduction to this community and its literature, the book explores issues related to the politics of critiquing literary texts collectively, a logical move that is at the core of many literary studies today. Acquired Alterity presents a case study of one substantial diasporic population and the self-representations of a number of its members, while at the same time providing a challenge to a dominant mode of literary study, in which texts are often explicitly or implicitly understood through a framework of ethno-nationalism. These subjects reveal the logical flaws in this framework through what Edward Mack is calling their "acquired alterity," the process by which their presumed innate identity is challenged, and the subjects become other to the systems they had conceived themselves as belonging to. The book prompts a reconsideration of the ramifications (and motivations) of literary and cultural analyses of collections of texts and the peoplehood constructs that are often the true objects of that knowledge production"-- Provided by publisher Notes "A Philip E. Lilienthal Book" Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 09, 2022) Subject Japanese -- Brazil -- Bastos (São Paulo) -- History Japanese language -- Brazil -- Bastos (São Paulo) -- History Japanese literature -- Brazil -- Bastos (São Paulo) -- History Japanese -- Brazil -- Ethnic identity Immigrants -- Brazil -- Bastos (São Paulo) -- History LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Asian / Japanese. HISTORY / Latin America / South America. Immigrants Japanese Japanese -- Ethnic identity Japanese language Japanese literature Brazil Brazil -- Bastos (São Paulo) Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2021028987 ISBN 0520383052 9780520383050

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