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Informationen zum Autor ZELIDETH MARÍA RIVAS is an assistant professor of Japanese at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia. DEBBIE LEE-DiSTEFANO is a professor of Spanish at Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau. She is the author of Three Asian-Hispanic Writers from Perú and is coeditor of the Journal of Asians in the Americas and the book series Historical and Cultural Interconnections between Latin America and Asia. Klappentext Investigates the myriad ways that Asians throughout the Americas use language, literature, religion, commerce, and other cultural practices to establish a sense of community, commemorate their countries of origin, and anticipate the possibilities presented by life in a new land. This volume provides an illuminating portrait of how immigrants negotiate between their native and adopted cultures. Zusammenfassung Investigates the myriad ways that Asians throughout the Americas use language! literature! religion! commerce! and other cultural practices to establish a sense of community! commemorate their countries of origin! and anticipate the possibilities presented by life in a new land. This volume provides an illuminating portrait of how immigrants negotiate between their native and adopted cultures. Inhaltsverzeichnis ContentsAcknowledgments IntroductionDebbie Lee-DiStefano Part I: Encounters: Moving Past Encounters: People of Asian Descent in the AmericasKathleen López Chapter 1: Yellow Blindness in a Black-and-White Ethnoscape: Chinese Influence and Heritage in Afro-Cuban ReligiosityMartin A. Tsang Chapter 2: Disrupting the “White Myth”: Korean Immigration to Buenos Aires and National ImaginariesJunyoung Verónica Kim Chapter 3: Harnessing the Dragon: Overseas Chinese Entrepreneurs in Mexico and CubaAdrian H. Hearn Part II: Historicities: InterludeKathleen López Chapter 4: Caught between Crime and Disease: Chinese Exclusion and Immigration Restrictions in Early Twentieth-Century CubaJosé Amador Chapter 5: The Politics of the Pipe: Opium Regulation and Protocolonial Governance in Nineteenth-Century Hawai’iJulia Katz Part III: Lives / Representations: InterludeKathleen López Chapter 6: Musings on Identity and Transgenerational ExperiencesAnn Kaneko Chapter 7: Intersecting Words: Haiku in GujaratiRoshni Rustomji-Kerns Chapter 8: Cultural Celebration, Historical Memory, and Claim to Place in Júlio Miyazawa’s Yawara! A Travessia Nihondin-Brasil and Uma Rosa para YumiIgnacio López-Calvo BibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex ...
