Virtual Orientalism in Brazilian Culture [Hardcover]

Orientalist discourses in Brazilian culture are an expression of anxieties about the re-structuring of time and space in the network age. The book examines engagements with Japanese postmodern culture in Brazil, which emerge in relation to the history of Japanese immigration and through a series of European and North American discursive mediations.Introduction 1. Graphic Fictions of Japanese Immigration to Brazil: Pop Cosmopolitan Mobility and the Disjunctive Temporalities of Migration 2. Otaku Culture and the Virtuality of Immaterial Labor in Maur?cio de Sousa's Turma da M?nica Jovem 3. Ekphrastic Anxiety in Virtual Brazil: Photographing Japan in the Fiction of Alberto Renault 4. Paranoid Orientalism in Bernardo Carvalho's O sol se p?e em S?o Paulo 5. Paulo Leminski's Haiku and the Disavowed Orientalism of the Poesia Concreta Project 6. Moving Images of Japanese Immigration: The Photography of Haruo Ohara Afterword

Scholars of Brazilian studies will find Kings analysis to be perceptive and revelatory & the way King moves the discussion of orientalist discourse outside of Brazil and engages in a much broader debate regarding orientalism in its globalized manifestations. & this well-researched book points critics in numerous directions for future research on orientalist discourse in Brazil. (Rex P. Nielson, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, Vol. 94 (9), 2017)

Edward King is a lecturer in Portuguese at Bristol University, UK and a former Junior Research Fellow at St Catharine s College, University of Cambridge, UK. Virtual Orientalism in Brazilian Culture is an important addition to the growing body of cultural studies materials in Latin America that move away from dominant anchors in literature and, in recent decades, film. There is so much fascinating cultural material in Latin America to be examined from a systematic and scholarly fashion, and studies like King's provides appropriate models. - David William Foster, Arizona State University, USA