Virtual Orientalism in Brazilian Culture [electronic resource] /
King, E.author.
Orientalist discourses in Brazilian culture are an expression of anxieties about the re-structuring of time and space in the network age. The book examines engagements with Japanese postmodern culture in Brazil, which emerge in relation to the history of Japanese immigration and through a series of European and North American discursive mediations.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction Virtual Orientalism in Brazilian Culture; Chapter 1 Graphic Fictions of Japanese Immigration to Brazil: ; Chapter 2 Otaku Culture and the Virtuality of Immaterial Labor in Maurício de Sousa's Turma da Mônica Jovem; Chapter 3 Ekphrastic Anxiety in Virtual Brazil: Photographing Japan in the Fiction of Alberto Renault; Chapter 4 Paranoid Orientalism in Bernardo Carvalho's O sol se põe em São Paulo; Chapter 5 Paulo Leminski's Haiku and the Disavowed Orientalism of the Poesia Concreta Project
Chapter 6 Moving Images of Japanese Immigration: The Photography of Haruo OharaAfterword; Notes; Works Cited; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Orientalist discourses in Brazilian culture are an expression of anxieties about the re-structuring of time and space in the network age. The book examines engagements with Japanese postmodern culture in Brazil, which emerge in relation to the history of Japanese immigration and through a series of European and North American discursive mediations.
Ethnology—Latin America.
Arts.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Globalization.
America—History.
Social sciences.
Latin American Culture.
Arts.
Regional and Cultural Studies.
Globalization.
History of the Americas.
Social Sciences, general.
Virtual orientalism in Brazilian culture.