LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Japanese

Current paper · Semantic Scholar

Food functions as a vessel for cultural memory, resistance, and assimilation within Asian American identity formation. Through a comparative literary analysis of Julie Otsuka’s When the Emperor Was Divine and Anita Felicelli’s Love Songs for a Lost Continent, this work argues that food holds a dual role in both protection and erasure of one’s heritage. Foods such as onigiri, umeboshi, and eggs show how forced assimi…

Reference · Wikidata

language spoken in East Asia

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

Japanese is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people. It has around 123 million speakers, primarily in Japan, the only country where it is the national language, and within the Japanese diaspora worldwide.

Book · DOAB

This volume follows the International Festival Japan Contemporary Arts in Venice The Aesthetics of Emptiness, organised between 21 and 24 February 2022 by Benedetto Marcello Music Conservatory in Venice, the Department of Asian and North African Studies of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, and Venice Academy of Fine Arts (institutions united in the Study in Venice project), with the generous support of the Japan Fou…

Full text · Open Library

A Puppet Play, Translated by Donald Keene; Prepared for the Columbia College Program of Translations from the Oriental Classics

Image · DPLA

24 pages.