Traveling Texts and the Work of Afro-Japanese Cultural Production
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Traveling Texts and the Work of Afro-Japanese Cultural Production

Two Haiku and a Microphone

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Traveling Texts and the Work of Afro-Japanese Cultural Production

Two Haiku and a Microphone

About this book

Traveling Texts and the Work of Afro-Japanese Cultural Production analyzes the complex conversations taking place in texts of all sorts traveling between Africans, African Diasporas, and Japanese across disciplinary, geographic, racial, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural borders. Be it focused on the make-up of the blackface ganguro or the haiku of Richard Wright, Rastafari communities in Japan or the black enka singer Jero, the volume turns its attention away from questions of representation to ones concerning the generative aspects of transcultural production. The contributors are interested primarily in texts in motion—the contradictory motion within texts, the traveling of texts, and the action that such kinetic energy inspires in readers, viewers, listeners, and travelers. As our texts travel and travail, the originary nodal points that anchor them to set significations loosen and are transformed; the essays trace how, in the process of traveling, the bodies and subjectivities of those working to reimagine the text(s) in new sites moderate, accommodate, and transfigure both the texts and themselves.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction
  4. Part I: Art and Performance
  5. Chapter 1: Urban Geishas
  6. Chapter 2: The Theatrics of Japanese Blackface
  7. Chapter 3: Abbey Lincoln and Kazuko Shiraishi’s Art-Making as Spiritual Labor
  8. Part II: Poetry and Literature
  9. Chapter 4: Playing the Dozens on Zen
  10. Chapter 5: Richard Wright’s Haiku and Modernist Poetics
  11. Chapter 6: In the Beginning
  12. Chapter 7: Future-Oriented Blackness in Shoˉwa Robot Culture—1924 to 1963
  13. Part III: Sound, Song, Music
  14. Chapter 8: What Is This “Black” in Japanese Popular Music?
  15. Chapter 9: Extending Diaspora
  16. Chapter 10: Hip-Hop and Reggae in Recent Japanese Social Movements
  17. Chapter 11: Can the Japanese Rap?
  18. Chapter 12: Race, Ethnicity and Affective Community in Japanese Rastafari
  19. Works Cited
  20. About the Contributors