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Samurai in the Land of the Gaucho - Transpacific Modernity and Nikkei Literature in Argentina (Paperback)
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Samurai in the Land of the Gaucho - Transpacific Modernity and Nikkei Literature in Argentina (Paperback)
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The Argentine vision of "transpacific modernity" was in part
informed by historical imaginings of Japan in the early twentieth
century. Intellectuals such as Eduardo Wilde and Manuel Domecq
GarcIa celebrated Japanese customs and traditions as important
values that can be integrated into Argentine society. But a new
generation of Nikkei or Japanese Argentines is rewriting this
conventional narrative in the twenty-first century. Nikkei writers
such as Maximiliano Matayoshi and Anna Kazumi Stahl are challenging
the earlier, unapologetic view of Japan based on their own
immigrant experiences. 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 twenty century to
the present.
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