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Connecting multiple academic areas, this book addresses three
aspects of the poetry of Jose Watanabe: 1) the construction of
"Japaneseness" in the poetic works and public figure of the poet,
2) the skillful manipulation of literary devices characteristic of
his poetry, 3) the unique sensibilities and moods of ephemerality
and ineffableness prevalent in his poetic works. The
trans/interdisciplinary nature of the book intends to promote a
dialogue and exchange of ideas across academic fields neglected in
most studies on the Peruvian poet. Written by researchers based in
Japan, it offers a unique perspective of Japanese cultural
phenomenon unavailable in previous studies. The goal of the book is
to shed light on how Japan continues to be seen by the West through
essentialist notions and stereotypical representations, as well as
to highlight the fact that the literary quality of Watanabe's
poetic artistry does not reside in it being "Japanese" and can be
appreciated without resorting to essentialist categorizations based
on positive Japanese stereotypes.
Is the affiliation between intellectuals and hegemony unbreakable?
When intellectuals attempt to retell history from its bottom side,
or when writers try to represent the so-called marginalized
subject, are they not simply reinforcing the perspective and agenda
of society's hegemonic currents? Cooptation, Complicity, and
Representation engages in a discussion of the problem of this
potentially unbreakable affiliation between intellectuals and
hegemony. Through five twentieth-century Mexican literary works:
Pedro Paramo (1955, Juan Rulfo); Hasta no verte Jesus mio (1969,
Elena Poniatowska); three short stories from Ciudad Real (1960,
Rosario Castellanos); Llanto: Novelas imposibles (1992, Carmen
Boullosa); and Muertos incomodos (falta lo que falta) (2005,
Subcomandate Marcos and Paco Ignacio Taibo II), this book attempts
to examine the contradictory phenomenon that emerges when
intellectuals' desire to represent a marginalized subject or
history clashes with their own limited ability to fully know the
marginalized. No critics have compiled these five seemingly
unrelated Mexican texts in order to scrutinize such a contradictory
tendency. Cooptation, Complicity, and Representation provides an
innovative way to connect the five texts by delineating, within
specific Mexican historical and geopolitical contexts, how and why
intellectuals have difficulty moving away from the reproduction of
"otherness", when they attempt to represent a marginalized subject
or history. This book can be useful for those who are interested in
the Spanish American boom literature, twentieth-century Mexican
literature, women writing, testimonial writing, subaltern studies,
postcolonial studies, historical novels, and cultural studies.
Connecting multiple academic areas, this book addresses three
aspects of the poetry of Jose Watanabe: 1) the construction of
"Japaneseness" in the poetic works and public figure of the poet,
2) the skillful manipulation of literary devices characteristic of
his poetry, 3) the unique sensibilities and moods of ephemerality
and ineffableness prevalent in his poetic works. The
trans/interdisciplinary nature of the book intends to promote a
dialogue and exchange of ideas across academic fields neglected in
most studies on the Peruvian poet. Written by researchers based in
Japan, it offers a unique perspective of Japanese cultural
phenomenon unavailable in previous studies. The goal of the book is
to shed light on how Japan continues to be seen by the West through
essentialist notions and stereotypical representations, as well as
to highlight the fact that the literary quality of Watanabe's
poetic artistry does not reside in it being "Japanese" and can be
appreciated without resorting to essentialist categorizations based
on positive Japanese stereotypes.
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