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Vassil, Kristina S.

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Passages: Writing Diasporic Identity in the Literature of Early Twentieth-Century Japanese America.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Passages: Writing Diasporic Identity in the Literature of Early Twentieth-Century Japanese America./
Author:	Vassil, Kristina S.
Description:	271 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-08, Section: A, page: .
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International72-08A.
Subject:	Literature, Modern. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3459069
ISBN:	9781124687551

Passages: Writing Diasporic Identity in the Literature of Early Twentieth-Century Japanese America.
Vassil, Kristina S.

Passages: Writing Diasporic Identity in the Literature of Early Twentieth-Century Japanese America. - 271 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 72-08, Section: A, page: .

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Michigan, 2011.

This dissertation aims to disrupt established notions of Asian Studies and Asian American Studies by focusing on four early twentieth-century Japanese language texts that do not fit neatly into either field. Using the concept of diasporic literature---where stories are set in other locations while revealing a continuing dialogue with the "homeland"---I examine Hozaka Kiichi's Wagahai no mitaru Amerika (Amerika as I see it), Okina Kyuin's theory and practice of iminchi bungei (immigrant land literature), Nagai Kafu's Amerika monogalari (American Stories) and Maedako Hiroichiro's Santo senkyaku (Third-class passengers). This framework allows work written by canonical "Japanese" authors like Kafu and Maedako to be put into a productive dialogue with that of "Japanese American" authors like Okina and Hozaka. Through readings that deeply engage early twentieth-century American and Japanese historical and ideological contexts, I bring out the nuanced understanding of Japanese immigrant communities contained in these texts, one that underscores cleavages based on class, status, language, and region. Investigations of the four texts also show how the literary products of diasporic populations incisively critique (and sometimes celebrate) the spaces that they inhabit and how they engage the possibility of flexible identities.

ISBN: 9781124687551Subjects--Topical Terms:

624011
Literature, Modern.

Passages: Writing Diasporic Identity in the Literature of Early Twentieth-Century Japanese America.
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