表題番号：2022C-249
日付：2023/03/28
研究課題Decolonizing Japanese Peruvian Immigration Memory through Storytellers’ Performative Act and Art
| 研究者所属（当時） | 資格 | 氏名 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| （代表者） | 国際学術院 国際教養学部 | 教授 | 間藤 茂子 |
- 研究成果概要
- Four memorial texts were published between 2017 and 2020, under a series of Japanese Peruvian immigration memory project, by the editorial house of the major cultural association, the Japanese-Peruvian Association (APJ), around the time of the 120th anniversary of the Japanese immigration to Peru. The purpose of this study was to explore how and why the texts bring a dissonance to the aim of the APJ, which attempts to celebrate the Japanese and their descendants’ experiences and contributions to the Peruvian nation as well as their successful integration in society as a prominent minority group. As a point of departure, I endeavored to read them as the sites of storytelling which reveal the performative function of both reinforcing and disturbing the APJ’s normalized presentation of Japanese immigration memories as an archive of the consecrated legacy of suffering and overcoming. First, I collected materials closely associated the notion of storytelling as a performance in Japan and in the US. Second, I analyzed one of the memory books, Crónicas de mujeres nikkei (Chronicles of Nikkei Women) (2019), for a round table discussion organized by CANELA (Japanese Spanish Latin American Academic Confederation) at Waseda University on May 29 2022.