Virtual Orientalism in Brazilian Culture

ISBN-13: 9781137468314 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 214 str.

Edward King

Opis

This book discusses representations of Japanese culture in Brazil, which emerge both in relation to the history of Japanese immigration to the country and to the increasingly global interest in manga and anime. These orientalist texts hesitate between con

Recenzje

"Scholars of Brazilian studies will find King's analysis to be perceptive and revelatory ... the way King moves the discussion of orientalist discourse outside of Brazil and engages in a much broader debate regarding orientalism in its globalized manifestations. ... this well-researched book points critics in numerous directions for future research on orientalist discourse in Brazil." (Rex P. Nielson, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, Vol. 94 (9), 2017)

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Graphic Fictions of Japanese Immigration to Brazil: Pop Cosmopolitan Mobility and the Disjunctive Temporalities of Migration 2. Otaku Culture and the Virtuality of Immaterial Labor in Maurício de Sousa's Turma da Mônica Jovem 3. Ekphrastic Anxiety in Virtual Brazil: Photographing Japan in the Fiction of Alberto Renault 4. Paranoid Orientalism in Bernardo Carvalho's O sol se põe em São Paulo 5. Paulo Leminski's Haiku and the Disavowed Orientalism of the Poesia Concreta Project 6. Moving Images of Japanese Immigration: The Photography of Haruo Ohara Afterword

O autorze

Edward King is a lecturer in Portuguese at Bristol University, UK and a former Junior Research Fellow at St Catharine s College, University of Cambridge, UK.