Overview

Orientalist discourses in Brazilian culture are an expression of anxieties about the re-structuring of time and space in the network age. The book examines engagements with Japanese postmodern culture in Brazil, which emerge in relation to the history of Japanese immigration and through a series of European and North American discursive mediations.

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Virtual Orientalism in Brazilian Culture is an important addition to the growing body of cultural studies materials in Latin America that move away from dominant anchors in literature and, in recent decades, film. There is so much fascinating cultural material in Latin America to be examined from a systematic and scholarly fashion, and studies like King's provides appropriate models. - David William Foster, Arizona State University, USA Tracing representations of Japan through an impressive range of media and genres, Virtual Orientalism in Brazilian Culture captures the novelty, tensions, and ambiguities of postmodern orientalism in Brazil. Edward King skillfully reveals the contradictions of a discourse that simultaneously celebrates radical contemporaneity and fluidity while remaining inexorably attached to imagined cultural fixities. - Pedro Erber, author of Breaching the Frame: The Rise of Contemporary Art in Brazil and Japan

Virtual Orientalism in Brazilian Culture is an important addition to the growing body of cultural studies materials in Latin America that move away from dominant anchors in literature and, in recent decades, film. There is so much fascinating cultural material in Latin America to be examined from a systematic and scholarly fashion, and studies like King's provides appropriate models. - David William Foster, Arizona State University, USA Tracing representations of Japan through an impressive range of media and genres, Virtual Orientalism in Brazilian Culture captures the novelty, tensions, and ambiguities of postmodern orientalism in Brazil. Edward King skillfully reveals the contradictions of a discourse that simultaneously celebrates radical contemporaneity and fluidity while remaining inexorably attached to imagined cultural fixities. - Pedro Erber, author of Breaching the Frame: The Rise of Contemporary Art in Brazil and Japan

Author Information

Edward King is a lecturer in Portuguese at Bristol University, UK and a former Junior Research Fellow at St Catharine s College, University of Cambridge, UK.

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