Virtual Orientalism in Brazilian Culture

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.

Introduction 1. Graphic Fictions of Japanese Immigration to Brazil: Pop Cosmopolitan Mobility and the Disjunctive Temporalities of Migration 2. Otaku Culture and the Virtuality of Immaterial Labor in Maurício de Sousa's Turma da Mônica Jovem 3. Ekphrastic Anxiety in Virtual Brazil: Photographing Japan in the Fiction of Alberto Renault 4. Paranoid Orientalism in Bernardo Carvalho's O sol se põe em São Paulo 5. Paulo Leminski's Haiku and the Disavowed Orientalism of the Poesia Concreta Project 6. Moving Images of Japanese Immigration: The Photography of Haruo Ohara Afterword