The Mexican Transpacific: Nikkei Writing, Visual Arts, and Performance

The Mexican Transpacific considers the influence of a Japanese ethnic background or lack thereof in the cultural production of several twentieth- and twenty-first-century Mexican authors, performers, and visual artists. Despite Japanese Mexicans' unquestionable influence on Mexico's history and culture and the historical studies recently published on this Nikkei community, the study of its cultural production and therefore its self-definition has been, for the most part, overlooked.

This book, a continuation of author Ignacio López-Calvo's previous research on cultural production by Latin American authors of Asian ancestry, focuses mostly on literature, theater, and visual arts produced by Japanese immigrants in Mexico and their descendants, rather than on the Japanese community as a mere object of study. With this interdisciplinary project, López-Calvo aims to bring to the fore this silenced community's voice and agency to historicize its own experience.

Author: Ignacio López-Calvo
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Published: 12/15/2022
Pages: 276
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.27lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d
ISBN13: 9780826504944
ISBN10: 0826504949
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Caribbean & Latin American
- Social Science | Minority Studies
- History | Latin America | Mexico

About the Author
Ignacio López-Calvo is a professor of literature, director of the Center for the Humanities, and Presidential Chair in the Humanities at UC Merced.