Acquired Alterity : : migration, identity, and literary nationalism / / Edward Thomas Mack.

"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...

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Place / Publishing House:Oakland, California : : University of California Press,, 2022.
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (274 pages)
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Table of 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).