Transpacific Connections: Literary and Cultural Production by and about Latin American Nikkeijin

Maja Zawierzeniec, Ph.D., is a Polish Mexicanist, translator, TEDxWarsawWomen speaker and TEDxMarszalkowska organizer, and a trilingual poet, who has collaborated with a number of renowned Polish and foreign universities and other institutions as a lecturer and in a variety of cultural, social and artistic projects. She has published La mujerenel mundolatinoamericano. Literatura, historia, sociedad – elcaso de México (2015); Las voces sordas. El capital creativo del narco México contemporáneo (1985-2015) (two editions: 2016 and 2018), y El glosarioesencial del lenguaje del narcoenel México contemporáneo (2018) as well as four poetry books and several research articles (Mexican culture and literature, narcoculture and narcoliterature, relations between Mexico and East Asia and linguistics).

• CONTENTSNotes on Contributors Introduction Chapter 1. The “Japanese Community” in Brazil and its Literary Production: The Functioning of “Death” inMatsui Tarô’s Literary Fiction Nora JuurmaaChapter 2. Contested Modernities: Representations of the Brazilian Dekasegi and the Nipponization of Brazilin Nikkei Cultural Production Ignacio López-CalvoChapter 3. When Gustave Flaubert Meets Ryūnosuke Akutagawa: “Corazón Sencillo” by Augusto HigaOshiro. The Short Story of a Peruvian Nikkei Writer Barbara MauthesChapter 4. Japanese Prints in Tablada’s Writings: Cultural and Media Transposition in ‘El poema de Okusai’ Luyue WangChapter 5. The Telenovela Oyuki’s Sin (El Pecado De Oyuki): Las Realidades Del Otro or Mexico through AJapanized Lens Maja ZawierzeniecIndex

“This important volume offers a deeper understanding of the literary and cultural production by and about Nikkeijin. The chapters not only explore novels, short stories, poems and art but also a telenovela and are written by a group of intergenerational scholars. An essential book to those who want to understand the historical, literary, cultural, and social relations between Latin America and Japan in a way that is striking, unique, and academically robust.” — Araceli Tinajero, The City College of New York and the Graduate Center, USA.