This book discusses representations of Japanese culture in Brazil, which emerge both in relation to the history of Japanese immigration to the country and to the increasingly global interest in manga and anime. These orientalist texts hesitate between contrasting conceptions of identity. They express both a nostalgia for the imagined stabilities of national modes of identification and a desire to challenge dominant conceptions of race and national belonging through an exploration of the virtualities of time and space opened up by information technologies. Virtual Orientalism in Brazilian Culture analyzes this contradictory discourse and provides a crucial insight into changing conceptions of modernity in Brazil.
- ISBN10 1349691518
- ISBN13 9781349691517
- Publish Date 14 January 2014
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 7 July 2016
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Palgrave MacMillan
- Edition 2015 ed.
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 214
- Language English