State and Culture Utopias: Japan in the Latin American literary imaginary (1868-1968)
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| Formato: | artículo original |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de Publicación: | 2023 |
| Descripción: | The essay performs an analysis of the imaginaries of Japan that emerged in Latin America between 1868 and 1968, a century in which the Asian country underwent processes of modernization, militarization and Westernization. First, we analyze the "utopian nation-state" that Latin Americans saw in Japan as a model of national unity led by a strong and firm state that combined native traditions with universal aspirations of Western Modernity, and which was presented as a pattern for thinking about the newly-born future of Latin American republics. Second, we analyze the "utopian culture" that was Japanese culture for Latin American writers, a concept that encompassed: the idea of a native aesthetic that survived for centuries, and the pacifist vision it supposedly embodied. Our general hypothesis is that Japan as a "utopian nation-state" lost legitimacy after the political-military bankruptcy of the Empire, but that same utopian thought survived and was transformed into a "utopian culture" sustained in aesthetics and then in spirituality. |
| País: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Institución: | Universidad de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Lenguaje: | Español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/54204 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/riea/article/view/54204 |
| Palabra clave: | Japón Latinoamérica utopía viajeros latinoamericanos cultura japonesa Japan Latin America utopia Latin American travelers Japanese culture |