![]() | The Affinity of the Eye: Writing Nikkei in Peru Subjects: Japanese -- Peru -- Ethnic identity; Japanese -- Peru -- Intellectual life; Peru -- Emigration and immigration -- History; Peruvian literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Japanese in literature; In The Affinity of the Eye: Writing Nikkei in Peru , Ignacio López-Calvo rises above the political emergence of the Fujimori phenomenon and uses politics and literature to provide one of the first comprehensive looks at how the Japanese assimilated and inserted themselves into Peruvian culture. Through contemporary writers' testimonies, essays, fiction, and poetry, López-Calvo constructs an account of the cultural formation of Japanese migrant communities. With deftly sensitive interviews and comments, he portrays the difficulties of being a Japanese Peruvian. Despite a few notable examples, Asian Peruvians have been excluded from a sense of belonging or national identity in Peru, which provides López-Calvo with the opportunity to record what the community says about their own cultural production. In so doing, López-Calvo challenges fixed notions of Japanese Peruvian identity. Ignacio López-Calvo is a professor of Latin American literature at the University of California, Merced. He is the author of five books on Latin American and US Latino literature and culture, including Latino Los Angeles in Film and Fiction: The Cultural Production of Social Anxiety (also published by the University of Arizona Press). |
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