Traveling Texts and the Work of Afro-Japanese Cultural Production - Couverture souple

Bridges, William

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 149850549X ISBN 13 : 9781498505499

Editeur : Lexington, 2019

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

William H. Bridges is assistant professor of Japanese and Asian studies at St. Olaf College.

Nina Cornyetz is associate professor of interdisciplinary studies at the Gallatin School for Individualized Study, New York University.

Yoshinobu Hakutani is professor of English emeritus and university distinguished scholar at Kent State University in Ohio.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lexington
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 149850549X
• ISBN 13: 9781498505499
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 302
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible