The affinity of the eye [electronic resource] : writing Nikkei in Peru / Ignacio López-Calvo.

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.

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