Edward Mack

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Acquired Alterity: Migration, Identity, and Literary Nationalism Volume 3Paperback, 25 January 2022

Acquired Alterity: Migration, Identity, and Literary Nationalism Volume 3
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Part of Series
New Interventions in Japanese Studies
Print Length
274 pages
Language
English
Publisher
University of California Press
Date Published
25 Jan 2022
ISBN-10
0520383044
ISBN-13
9780520383043

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This is the first book-length study in English of the Japanese-language literary activities of early 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. This case study of the reading and writing of one diasporic population challenges the dominant mode of literary study, in which texts are often explicitly or implicitly understood through a framework of ethno-nationalism. Self-representations by writers in the diaspora reveal flaws in this prevailing framework through what Edward Mack calls "acquired alterity," in which expectations about the stability of ethnic identity are subverted in surprising ways. Acquired Alterity encourages a reconsideration of the ramifications (and motivations) of cultural analyses of texts and the constructions of peoplehood that are often the true objects of literary knowledge production.

Product Details

Author:
Edward Mack
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
25 January 2022
Dimensions:
22.61 x 15.24 x 1.78 cm
ISBN-10:
0520383044
ISBN-13:
9780520383043
Language:
English
Pages:
274
Weight:
362.87 gm

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