Acquired Alterity, Migration, Identity, and Literary Nationalism, Migration, Identity, and Literary Nationalism

Author

Mack, Edward

Year

2022

Publisher

University of California Press

Language

English

Pages

ISBN

978-0-52038-304-3

Link

Last Update

14-Jul-2026

Keywords

Language & Literature ; Asian Studies ; History ; Latin American Studies

Description

In 1932, two stories were written in Japanese depicting the large-scale emigration from Japan to Brazil that occurred prior to the Second World War, and both went on to receive newly inaugurated literary awards. The stories were selected by writers and editors who thought them to be exceptionally valuable for a variety of reasons, both literary and social, and who utilized the awards not only to ascribe value to the texts discursively, but also to impact the dissemination, preservation, and reception of those texts through material means.¹ The result was that they reached significantly expanded reading communities and did so...