Traveling Texts and the Work of Afro-Japanese Cultural Production - Two Haiku and a Microphone (Hardcover)

Traveling Texts and the Work of Afro-Japanese Cultural Production analyzes the complex conversations taking place in texts of all sorts traveling between Africans, African Diasporas, and Japanese across disciplinary, geographic, racial, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural borders. Be it focused on the make-up of the blackface ganguro or the haiku of Richard Wright, Rastafari communities in Japan or the black enka singer Jero, the volume turns its attention away from questions of representation to ones concerning the generative aspects of transcultural production. The contributors are interested primarily in texts in motion-the contradictory motion within texts, the traveling of texts, and the action that such kinetic energy inspires in readers, viewers, listeners, and travelers. As our texts travel and travail, the originary nodal points that anchor them to set significations loosen and are transformed; the essays trace how, in the process of traveling, the bodies and subjectivities of those working to reimagine the text(s) in new sites moderate, accommodate, and transfigure both the texts and themselves.

General

Imprint:	Lexington Books
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	New Studies in Modern Japan
Release date:	June 2015
Editors:	William H. Bridges • Nina Cornyetz
Contributors:	Crystal S Anderson • Michio Arimitsu • William H. Bridges • Nina Cornyetz • Kevin Fellezs • Tia-Simone Gardner • Yoshinobu Hakutani • Noriko Manabe
Dimensions:	235 x 162 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	302
ISBN-13:	978-1-4985-0547-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Black studies Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General
LSN:	1-4985-0547-3
Barcode:	9781498505475

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