The Affinity of the Eye: Writing Nikkei in Peru

by Ignacio López-Calvo

In The Affinity of the Eye: Writing Nikkei in Peru, Ignacio L pez-Calvo rises above the political emergence of the Fujimori phenomenon and uses politics and literature to provide one of the first comprehensive looks at how the Japanese assimilated and inserted themselves into Peruvian culture. Through contemporary writers' testimonies, essays, fiction, and poetry, L pez-Calvo constructs an account of the cultural formation of Japanese migrant...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816525986
• ISBN13: 9780816525980
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.1"