Reflections on Japanese-Brazilian Immigration through Narrative: An Interview with Oscar Nakasato

Authors

  • Cecily Raynor McGill University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21471/jls.v2i1.161

Keywords:

Novel, immigration, Brazil, transnationalism, Japan

Abstract

In this interview, Oscar Nakasato tells us what motivated him to write Nihonjin. He also discusses the extent to which his Japanese heritage impacted the plot, narrative style, and characters, and how he frames food and cultural differences as quintessential to the Japanese-Brazilian experience.

Author Biography

Cecily Raynor, McGill University

Cecily Raynor is Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies and Digital Humanities at McGill University. Her research focuses on contemporary Latin American literature and transnationalism. She has published on spatial representations in contemporary Brazilian literature in Brasil/Brazil: A Journal of Brazilian Literature and Estudos de Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea. Her recent refereed article in Canada and Beyond: A Journal of Canadian Literary and Cultural Studies, examines the representation of the home space in Nihonhjin and the Japanese-Canadian migration novel, Obasan. The working title of her book manuscript examining treatments of space and time in contemporary Latin American literature is Global Spaces in Latin American Literature.

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Published

2017-06-03

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 1 (2017): Special Dossier on Portuguese Cinema

Section

Interviews

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