Author
Mack, Edward
Year
2022
Publisher
University of California Press
Language
English
Pages
11
ISBN
978-0-52038-304-3
Last Update
21-Sep-2024
Keywords
Language & Literature ; Asian Studies ; History ; Latin American Studies
In 1932, two stories were written in Japanese depicting the large-scale emigration from Japan to Brazil that occurred prior to the Second World War, and both went on to receive newly inaugurated literary awards. The stories were selected by writers and editors who thought them to be exceptionally valuable for a variety of reasons, both literary and social, and who utilized the awards not only to ascribe value to the texts discursively, but also to impact the dissemination, preservation, and reception of those texts through material means.¹ The result was that they reached significantly expanded reading communities and did so...
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