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The affinity of the eye

López-Calvo, Ignacio.

The affinity of the eye writing Nikkei in Peru / [electronic resource] : Ignacio López-Calvo. - Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2013. - 1 online resource (xvii, 262 pages :) illustrations ;

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 Jose Watanabe's poetry -- Gender roles, sexuality, and uchinanchu cultural identity in Doris Moromisato's poetry -- Epilogue.

9780816599875 0816599874


Japanese in literature.
Peruvian literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Japanese--Intellectual life.--Peru
Japanese--Ethnic identity.--Peru


Peru--Emigration and immigration--History.


Electronic books.

F3619.J3 / L67 2013

305.8968/85