Representations of Home in Obasan and Nihonjin: The Issei, Nisei, Sansei of Canada and Brazil
Representations of Home in Obasan and Nihonjin: The Issei, Nisei, Sansei of Canada and Brazil
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Obasan 和 Nihonjin 的家乡代表：加拿大和巴西的 Issei、Nisei、Sansei
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10.33776/candb.v6i1.3078
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发表时间：
2017
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11.9
通讯作者：
C. Raynor
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作者：
C. Raynor
小川乔伊的《奥巴桑》（1981年）和奥斯卡·中里的《日本人》（2011年）是两部分别讲述加拿大和巴西日本侨民生活的小说。这两个国家在19世纪末和20世纪初都有着丰富的日本移民传统，虽然在重要方面有所不同，但却产生了大量的文化产品。在这篇文章中，我研究了欧巴桑和日本人的家庭空间的时空处理，认为这个领域有两个主要功能：1）作为表达和构建身份的场所2）作为面对文化，语言和民族异化的破坏和抵抗点。从比较的透镜审视日本移民文学，揭示了过去作为通往现在的门户，同时围绕种族和民族进行了细致入微的民族话语。虽然这两个故事相隔千里，出版时间也有三十年之久，但来自巴西和加拿大的日本移民故事给我们提供了关于民族遗产和文化多元性的多样而交叉的教训。家庭空间对于观察这些过境点尤其重要，因为它对语言，饮食文化和其他文物的关注揭示了一种多层次的体验。
Joy Kogawa’s Obasan (1981) and Oscar Nakasato’s Nihonjin (2011) are two novels that narrate the lives of Japanese diaspora in Canada and Brazil respectively. Both countries share a rich tradition of Japanese migration during the late 19 th and early 20 th centuries, which, while distinct in important ways, has resulted in a significant body of cultural production. In this article, I examine spatiotemporal treatments of the home space in Obasan and Nihonjin , arguing that this realm serves two primary functions: 1) as a site for the expression and construction of identity 2) as a point of disruption and resistance in the face of cultural, linguistic and national alienation. Examining Japanese migration literature from a comparative lens sheds light on the past as a gateway to the present, while nuancing national discourses around race and ethnicity. Although these two narratives are separated by thousands of miles and thirty years in their publication dates, Japanese migrant tales from Brazil and Canada teach us diverse and intersecting lessons about ethnic heritage and cultural plurality. The domestic space is particularly critical for observing these crossings as its attention to language, food culture and other artifacts reveals a multi-layered experience.