La Representacion de la Cultura Japonesa en la Literatura Hispanoamericana

Date of Award

2007

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Humanities

First Advisor

Labrador-Rodriguez, Sonia

Keywords

Japanese, Hispanic American literature, Carrillo, Enrique Gomez, Modernismo, Hokusai, Utamaro, Goncourt, Japan, Japon

Area of Concentration

Hispanic Language and Culture

Abstract

This thesis is an examination of the representation of the Japanese culture in Hispanic American Modernist literature. The text I chose to focus on was De Marsella a Tokio by the Guatemalan writer Enrique Gomez Carrillo, who traveled to Japan right after the Russo Japanese War of 1904-1905. His chronicles represent an alternative discourse to the European and American dominated travel literature dealing with Japan. A lot of attention is focused on the role of Japanese art and western literature in forming the ideas of the Hispanic American writers. There is also an analysis of the socio-economic conditions of the writer themselves and how this played a role in travel literature. This study could further be extended by studying the three other writers who also traveled to Japan around the same time period: Jose Juan Tablada, Efren Rebolledo and Arturo Ambrogui.

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