Author: Shūhei Hosokawa
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900439639X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Sentiments, Language, and the Arts: The Japanese-Brazilian Heritage explores the complex feelings of Japanese immigrants in Brazil, focusing on their yearning for “home” as a way of interpreting the shifting nature of their identity. To understand the immigrants’ lives and feelings from their own perspective, Hosokawa looks closely at their poetry, linguistic activities such as the borrowing of Portuguese words, amateur speech contests, and a fantasy about the shared origins of Japanese and the Brazilian indigenous language Tupi. He also examines the issue of group identity through the performing arts, analyzing the reception of Japanese sopranos who sang the title role in Madam Butterfly, participation in Carnival parades, and the oral storytelling of their history in popular narratives called rôkyoku. Translated from Japanese by Paul Warham.
Sentiment, Language, and the Arts: The Japanese- Brazilian Heritage
Author: Shūhei Hosokawa
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900439639X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Sentiments, Language, and the Arts: The Japanese-Brazilian Heritage explores the complex feelings of Japanese immigrants in Brazil, focusing on their yearning for “home” as a way of interpreting the shifting nature of their identity. To understand the immigrants’ lives and feelings from their own perspective, Hosokawa looks closely at their poetry, linguistic activities such as the borrowing of Portuguese words, amateur speech contests, and a fantasy about the shared origins of Japanese and the Brazilian indigenous language Tupi. He also examines the issue of group identity through the performing arts, analyzing the reception of Japanese sopranos who sang the title role in Madam Butterfly, participation in Carnival parades, and the oral storytelling of their history in popular narratives called rôkyoku. Translated from Japanese by Paul Warham.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900439639X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Sentiments, Language, and the Arts: The Japanese-Brazilian Heritage explores the complex feelings of Japanese immigrants in Brazil, focusing on their yearning for “home” as a way of interpreting the shifting nature of their identity. To understand the immigrants’ lives and feelings from their own perspective, Hosokawa looks closely at their poetry, linguistic activities such as the borrowing of Portuguese words, amateur speech contests, and a fantasy about the shared origins of Japanese and the Brazilian indigenous language Tupi. He also examines the issue of group identity through the performing arts, analyzing the reception of Japanese sopranos who sang the title role in Madam Butterfly, participation in Carnival parades, and the oral storytelling of their history in popular narratives called rôkyoku. Translated from Japanese by Paul Warham.
Acquired Alterity
Author: Edward Mack
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520383044
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
"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"--
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520383044
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
"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"--
Resources in Education
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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With Fists Raised
Author: Tru Leverette
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 1800859775
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Focusing on literary and visual art of the Black Arts Movement, this collection highlights artists whose work diverged from narrow definitions of the Black Aesthetic and black nationalism. As contemporary activists receive the legacies of earlier efforts, this collection remembers and re-envisions art that supported and shaped the BAM era.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 1800859775
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Focusing on literary and visual art of the Black Arts Movement, this collection highlights artists whose work diverged from narrow definitions of the Black Aesthetic and black nationalism. As contemporary activists receive the legacies of earlier efforts, this collection remembers and re-envisions art that supported and shaped the BAM era.
World's Fair Bulletin
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Category : Louisiana Purchase Exposition
Languages : en
Pages : 904
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Category : Louisiana Purchase Exposition
Languages : en
Pages : 904
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The Universal Exposition of 1904
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Category : Louisiana Purchase Exposition
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Category : Louisiana Purchase Exposition
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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The New York Times Index
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Category : Indexes
Languages : en
Pages : 1660
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Category : Indexes
Languages : en
Pages : 1660
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Brazil
Author: Thomas Lynn Smith
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : pt
Pages : 488
Book Description
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : pt
Pages : 488
Book Description
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
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Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1368
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Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1368
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Background Notes, Bolivia
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Category : Bolivia
Languages : en
Pages : 12
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Category : Bolivia
Languages : en
Pages : 12
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