Title: The affinity of the eye : writing Nikkei in Peru /
Authors: López-Calvo, Ignacio
Year: 2013
Subjects: Japanese Peru Ethnic identity.; Japanese Peru Intellectual life.; Peruvian literature History and criticism.; Japanese in literature.; Peru Emigration and immigration History.
Contents: 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 José Watanabe's poetry -- Gender roles, sexuality, and uchinanchu cultural identity in Doris Moromisato's poetry -- Epilogue.