Samurai in the Land of the Gaucho
Koichi Hagimoto
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Beschreibung
Compared to the experience of political persecution against Japanese immigrants in Brazil and Peru, the Japanese in Argentina generally lived under a more agreeable sociopolitical climate. In order to understand the "positive" perception of Japan in Argentine history and literature, Samurai in the Land of the Gaucho turns to the current debate on race in Argentina, particularly as it relates to the discourse of whiteness. One of the central arguments is that Argentina's century-old interest in Japan represents a disguised method of (re)claiming its white, Western identity.
Through close readings of diverse genres (travel writing, essay, novel, short story, and film) Samurai in the Land of the Gaucho yields a multi-layered analysis in order to underline the role Japan has played in both defining and defying Argentine modernity from the twentieth century to the present.
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transnationalism, Asia-Latin America relations, silence, Japan, whiteness, Juan Domingo Perón, female agency, literature, Argentina, Lafcadio Hearn, gendering orientalism, Japanese Imperialism, Anna Kazumi Stahl, China, Eduardo Wilde, Nikkei identity, Jorge Max Rohde, global Nikkei literature, multiculturalism, Asian diaspora, samurai, history, aesthetics, Yoshio Shinya, civilization and barbarism, hygiene, Paula Brecciaroli, desaparecidos, Japanese heritage, Maximiliano Matayoshi, travel literature, Chinese immigrants, Orientalism, transpacific modernity, westernization, Héctor Dai Sugimura, Japanese immigration, Russo-Japanese War, spirituality, Lucía Puenzo, Alejandra Kamiya, Manuel Domecq García, Argentine cinema, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, gaucho, Argentine newspapers, transpacific studies, Nikkei voices, hybridity, modernismo