Transpacific Correspondence
Dispatches from Japan's Black Studies
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Beschreibung
Since 1954, Japan has become home to a vibrant but little-known tradition of Black Studies. Transpacific Correspondence introduces this intellectual tradition to English-speaking audiences, placing it in the context of a long history of Afro-Asian solidarity and affirming its commitments to transnational inquiry and cosmopolitan exchange. More than six decades in the making, Japan’s Black Studies continues to shake up commonly held knowledge of Black history, culture, and literature and build a truly globalized field of Black Studies.
Examines Japan as an unexpected but critical site of scholarship on Black history, culture, and literature Advances scholarly conversations between African America, the African diaspora, and Japan Appeals to scholars of Black Studies, African American intellectual history, Afrodiasporic literature and culture, and Afro-Asian Studies
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Yuichiro Onishi
Themen in »Transpacific Correspondence«
Black Studies in Japan Afro-Asian relations Black intellectual history African diaspora transpacific Black freedom studies Black politics Civil Rights movement Black feminism Mary Lou Williams haiku postwar Japan US occupation of Japan cosmopolitanism S. I. Hayakawa Paule Marshall
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“Each chapter of the volume has so much to offer as they reimagine the parameters of Black Studies temporally, geographically, and methodologically. A crystallization of Japan’s Black Studies in the past and the present, the book will certainly be of great value to those interested in Black Studies, Japan Studies, American Studies and beyond.” (Michio Arimitsu, Contemporary Japan, April 16, 2021)
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