2020 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report
Migration, Memory, and Literature: Mapping Japanese Nationalism in Nikkei Communitites in Peru, Bolivia, and Argentina
| Project/Area Number |
16K02612
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| Research Institution | Waseda University |
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Principal Investigator |
間藤 茂子 早稲田大学, 国際学術院, 教授 (90579468)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2016-04-01 – 2021-03-31
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| Keywords | Peruvian literature / Nikkei literature / Migration / National identity |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, my initial plans to research in Argentina and the U.S., present at international conferences and organize a fairly large conference in Tokyo had to be cancelled. I was planning to travel to Buenos Aires to visit Japanese cultural centers in Buenos Aires and the Japanese-American-Argentine writer who I met in Tokyo in 2015, but could not achieve this goal. However, I adjusted my plans and was able to accomplish the following two activities.
The first accomplishment was that I published a book titled "Las voces que entrecruzan el Peru y Japon" (The Voices that Intersect Peru and Japan") through a Peruvian editorial house, Editoriales Murrup in March 2021. My first plan was to publish a book that would cover Bolivian and Argentine literary works, but I could not find an innovative way and convincing theoretical orientation to connect Peruvian works with a small number of Bolivian and Argentine literary works that I have found throughout this research project. Rather than looking for new literary works published in Bolivia and Argentina, I decided to focus on Peruvian and Japanese literary works to explore how and why Japanese Peruvian literary works have been slowly gaining global attention since the end of the 20th century and how critics can present these works without any specific category such as "nikkei literature."
The second accomplishment was that I published a peer-reviewed book chapter in a book "Cultural and Literary Dialogues Between Asia and Latin America" edited by A. Gasquet and G. Majstorovic in February 2021 through Palgrave.
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