.... This is to insist upon how in her writings the local indeed becomes the global. American writer Asian American Brazil Maru Yamashita Cosmopolitan Japanese American writer Japanese Brazilian Through the Arc of the Rain Forest novel Yamashita Transnational Yamashita Karen Tei “Emergent literature” Hybridity...

... stretching from Tokyo to Brazil. He suggests the novel shows a Japan, in its consumerism, package overkill and proliferation of knick-knacks, more taken up with buying and selling itself than developing a more enduring cultural creativity. Circle K Cycles Yamashita Dislocation Estrangement...

...In her Gaijin (1980), Tizuka Yamasaki (b. 1949) narrates a story of a young woman who marries her older brother’s best friend for the sake of their immigration to Brazil in 1908, and eventually becomes an independent working single mother in the city. Even though the story is loosely based on her...

...Within a year and half after the global recession began in September 2008, one quarter of Brazilian residents in Japan had returned to Brazil, which critically damaged the once thriving ethic Brazilian businesses in Japan’s Brazil Towns. Brazilian dekassegui workers largely married among themselves...

... processes were countries in need of unskilled labor, including the United States, Canada, Australia, and, from 1908, Brazil. The resulting large-scale population shift placed Japanese subjects in direct contact with pronounced heterogeneity. This essay explores literary representations of alterity against...

...This is the reworking of a lecture given at Aoyama Gakuin University in 2013 and offers a timeline for Yamashita’s life and travels in the USA, Brazil and Japan. She explores her bow into authorship and the histories, sites and languages that have shaped not only her ethnic but literary-creative...

...This essay aligns three genealogical “Japanese” narratives. Wong first addresses Yamashita’s novels of migrant Brazil and residential California. Analysis follows of Joy Kogawa’s Obasan with its portrait of World War II internment in British Columbia. Julie Otsuka’s When...

...If Yamashita has pursued serious enough themes of environmental damage or the set-backs to dreams of ideal Japanese settlement in Brazil (respectively in the two titles within the chapter title), that is not to underplay the force of wit and humor in her writings. This essay deconstructs...

... Brazilian Los Angeles city Migration Japanese American writer Identity São Paulo city Brazil Maru Yamashita Historical fiction Utopia Dekasegi Asian American Internment Authorship Family Novels Travel Brazil Japan Teaching ARL. With the publication of Anime Wong: Fictions...

... delivered at an international conference that ruminates on her Japanese American heritage; and a full bibliography. The essays offer fresh and in-depth readings of the magic realist canvas of Through the Arc of the Rain Forest (1990); the Japanese emigrant portraiture of Brazil-Maru...

... and the WWII, which ended prewar immigration in 1942. After the war, Japanese immigrants decided to stay on in Brazil and began to migrate to the city, whereas Japanese immigration was resumed in 1953. By 1980, Japanese Brazilians had moved up to urban middle classes, by means of higher education. Yet, due...