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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword by Jeffrey Lesser -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Translation -- Introduction: Diasporas, Unstable Identities, and Nikkei Discourse -- 1. Historical Memory and Claiming Place -- 2. Between Assimilationism and Cultural Celebration -- 3. Female Agency, Nostalgia, and Generational Gaps -- 4. The Impact of World War II on the Nikkeijin -- 5. Contested Modernities: Dekasegi (Self-)Representations and the Nipponization of Brazil -- 6. Brazilian Dekasegi Children in Japanese Film -- Epilogue -- Chronological List of Analyzed Works -- Works Cited -- Index.

While Said focused on the perceptions and stereotypes of the Near East "Oriental" in England, France and the United States, most of these essays study the decentering interplay between "peripheral" areas of the Third World, "semiperipheral" areas (Spain and Portugal since the second part of the seventeenth century), and marginalized social groups of the globe (Chicanos, African Americans, and Filipino Americans). They explore, for example, how China and the Far East in general are imagined an...

This article argues that Mario Bellatin's exploration of the potential relationship between writing, translation and physical deformity leads, perhaps unconsciously, to the continuation of exoticising stereotypes about 'Oriental' cultures. In El jardín de la señora Murakami, Shiki Nagaoka: una nariz de ficción, and Biografía ilustrada de Mishima, Bellatin resorts to Japanese characters to distance himself from his own writings, as if it were the culture that is the most alien to his own. His lucubrations about reading and writing are sometimes accompanied of exocitising and orientalist overtones, which he mocks at times.

This volume studies the concept of refuge as well as historical forced displacement and statelessness, trying to provide potential lasting solutions to the many problems associated with this situation. It moves from the pressing crisis of refugees to the crisis of humanity that seeks to find refuge.

From drought to deluge, climate extremes are mobilizing humanities scholars to reimagine water discourse, which has until now largely focused on human power over water. This volume unites preeminent and emerging voices across humanistic disciplines to develop a new discourse called the hydrohumanities, dedicated to examining water-human-power relationships.;Organized into three themes in water studies—agency, fluid identities, and cultural currencies—Hydrohumanities exemplifies how interdisciplinary approaches can transform water conversations. Part One explores the properties of water and the ways water challenges human plans for control. Part Two explores how water (or its absence) shapes human collective and individual identities. Part Three engages notions of value and circulation to think about how water has been employed for local, national, and international gains. This volume shows how humanities scholarship has world-changing potential to achieve more just water futures.;"This fascinating essay collection breaks new ground with its interdisciplinary insights into the relations between water and human societies." MATTHEW GANDY, author of The Fabric of Space: Water, Modernity, and the Urban Imagination;"Water's power, purpose, and meaning cannot be contained by any one scholarly discipline. Understanding the value of water in a time of climate catastrophe demands more-than-human humanities, and Hydrohumanities answers this call." ASTRIDA NIEMANIS, author of Bodies of Water: Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Lee-Distefano, Debbie -- PART I. Encounters: Moving Past Encounters: People of Asian Descent in the Americas -- Introduction / López, Kathleen -- 1. Yellow Blindness in a Black-and- White Ethnoscape: Chinese Influence and Heritage in Afro-Cuban Religiosity / Tsang, Martin A. -- 2. Disrupting the "White Myth": Korean Immigration to Buenos Aires and National Imaginaries / Verónica Kim, Junyoung -- 3. Harnessing the Dragon: Overseas Chinese Entrepreneurs in Mexico and Cuba / Hearn, Adrian H. -- PART II. Historicities: Interlude -- Introduction / López, Kathleen -- 4. Caught between Crime and Disease: Chinese Exclusion and Immigration Restrictions in Early Twentieth-Century Cuba / Amador, José -- 5. The Politics of the Pipe: Opium Regulation and Protocolonial Governance in Nineteenth-Century Hawai'i / Katz, Julia -- PART III. Lives/Representations: Interlude -- Introduction / López, Kathleen -- 6. Musings on Identity and Transgenerational Experiences / Kaneko, Ann -- 7. Intersecting Words: Haiku in Gujarati / Rustomji-Kerns, Roshni -- 8. Cultural Celebration, Historical Memory, and Claim to Place in Júlio Miyazawa's Yawara! A Travessia Nihondin-Brasil and Uma Rosa para Yumi / López-Calvo, Ignacio -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index