Foreword by Emma Nakatani
Introduction: Nikkei Cultural Production and Transpacific Studies from a Latin Americanist Perspective
Part I: Immigrant, Literary Negotiations of National Identity
1. Nonaka's Memoir: From Captain in the Mexican Revolution to Enemy of the State
2. Challenges to Nihonjinron in Nakatani's Memoirs
3. Strategic Essentialism in Akane's Performative Tanka
Part II: Japanese Mexican Visual and Performance Arts
4. Resignifying Yamato-damashii and Utopian Socialism in the Manga Los samuráis de México
5. Nishizawa's Bicultural Dialectics and the Critical Stereotyping of His Art
6. The Transpacific in Akiko's Theatrical Performance
Conclusion: Another Past Is Possible
Notes
Works Cited
Index

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