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Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext Transpacific Connections: Literary and Cultural Production by and about Latin American Nikkeijin is a cross-cultural work combining Latin American and Japanese studies. It contains original research on social and cultural relations between Japan and Latin America, ranging from Japanese inspirations in one of the most renowned Mexican poets, Brazilian dekasegi (temporary workers in Japan) described in a variety of testimonials, Japanese community in Brazil and its literary production, and a Mexican telenovela, inspired by the Japanese culture to European inspirations in a Nikkei Peruvian writer, Augusto Higa Oshiro. Inhaltsverzeichnis CONTENTS Notes on Contributors Introduction Chapter 1. The "Japanese Community" in Brazil and its Literary Production: The Functioning of "Death" in Matsui Tarô's Literary Fiction Nora Juurmaa Chapter 2. Contested Modernities: Representations of the Brazilian Dekasegi and the Nipponization of Brazil in Nikkei Cultural Production Ignacio López-Calvo Chapter 3. When Gustave Flaubert Meets Ry¿nosuke Akutagawa: "Corazón Sencillo" by Augusto Higa Oshiro. The Short Story of a Peruvian Nikkei Writer Barbara Mauthes Chapter 4. Japanese Prints in Tablada's Writings: Cultural and Media Transposition in 'El poema de Okusai' Luyue Wang Chapter 5. The Telenovela Oyuki's Sin (El Pecado De Oyuki): Las Realidades Del Otro or Mexico through A Japanized Lens Maja Zawierzeniec Index ...
