The Myth of Ethnic Purity of the Japanese Brazilian Communities in the Works of Karen Tei Yamashita

• 발행기관: 한국영미어문학회
• 저자명: Soo young Lee
• 간행물 정보: 『영미어문학』영미어문학 제123호, 137~157쪽, 전체 21쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2016.12.30

영문 초록

In Brazil-Maru and Circle K Cycles, published in 1992 and 2001 respectively, sansei Japanese-American writer Karen Tei Yamashita tells the stories of Japanese Brazilian diasporic communities in Brazil and Japan. In both works, Yamashita’s protagonists show how the Japanese migrants between Japan and Brazil survive the violence of economic exploitation and cultural marginalization by inventing themselves as hybridized beings for reproducing cultural alternatives. Nevertheless, this study tries to go beyond Yamashita’s literary representations of “alternatives” themselves that relate to questions like: who is involved in their “creole” situation; how it is presented; and how successful it was? Rather, it focuses on the global forces working against these hybrid identities which seem to steer the direction back toward the notion of essentialized ethnic purity.

목차

Abstract

1. Introduction

2. “Japaneseness” in Esperança

3. “Essence”

Works Cited

키워드

Karen Tei Yamashita Brazil-Maru Circle K. Cycles Nikkei Asian American Literature Japanese American Literature Japanese Brazilians ethnicity