Kafus Amerika Monogatari: a country and an unknown people / Narrativas da América: o confronto com o desconhecido
AUTOR(ES)
Mina Isotani
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2008
RESUMO
Nagai Kafus Amerika Monogatari is a book that contains twenty-three narratives written in the period from 1903 to 1907, time in that the writer lived in the United States. This work illustrates the authors reflection on themes as the Japanese immigration at the beginning of the XX century, the encounter with the western culture and the Japanese society after the Meiji Revolution. The book was published soon after the return of Kafû to Japan, in August twenty one of 1908 and due to sensitive and sincere exhibition about the observations done concerning a country and an unknown people, added the appreciation of the culture and western literature, Amerika Monogatari was described as an unique work, that it got to describe the United States thoroughly. And in the present work will be presented the complete translation of the book Narratives of America, that is the first direct translation of the book Amerika Monogatari from the Japanese version to the Portuguese; Brief comments of the life and work of Nagai Kafu and it also have as objective to expose Nagai Kafus reflections when running across with the American culture, showing the culture shock and the life of the immigrants through the reflection of themes like the feminine character, the world of the pleasures, the conditions lived by the immigrants, the religion, the art, the music and the French literature.
ASSUNTO(S)
imigração japonesa. literatura japonesa imigração japonesa. literatura de viagem literatura de viagem nagai kafû nagai kafû literatura japonesa
