Hidden Facts and The Representation of Indonesia within Mamiya Mosuke’s “Kichi no Seikatsu”

Despite witnessing modernization in Indonesia, nanpōchōyōsakka (South-dispatched writers) depicted Indonesians as people who remain undeveloped because of Western colonialism. This article argues that there must be “hidden facts” behind the representation of Indonesia within the writers’ works due to a mission of disseminating the idea of the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere. Using Mamiya Mosuke’s military essay “Kichi no Seikatsu” as the object of study, this article seeks to explain what kind of “Indonesia” Mamiya represents and the impact of such representation on “Indonesia” as a spatial concept by illuminating “hidden facts” behind his expressions. This article employs the concept of contact zone (Mary Louise Pratt) to view Indonesia as a social space already shaped by Dutch colonialism and uses sakuhinron method to analyze Mamiya’s expressions in representing Indonesia. Through analysis, Mamiya portrays Indonesians as reliant people and blames such conditions on the Dutch colonial policy while leaving local intellectuals and nationalist movements out of his narrative. This article concludes that Mamiya justifies the notion of the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere by denying Indonesian agency, gives an impression that Indonesians need Japanese guidance to stand on their own. Keywords: Contact Zone; Kichi no Seikatsu; Mamiya Mosuke; Nanpōchōyōsakka; Representation

Tropicalismo cañí: expresiones de una nueva españolidad postmoderna en la música urbana actual

Este artículo analiza nuevas expresiones de ‘españolidad’ originadas en productos audiovisuales de la escena de la música urbana actual. Analizando ejemplos de artistas como C. Tangana, Rosalía y Califato ¾ exploro cómo estos artistas emplean el imaginario de lo castizo para descentralizar Castilla como mito dominador geopolítico del Estadonación español. La orientalización de lo ‘español’, junto a símbolos como el flamenco, el toreo, las mantillas negras, la imaginaría católica y el discurso del subdesarrollo español aparecen resignificados con símbolos asociados con la cultura latinoamericana, guiños feministas y/o mezcla de géneros musicales como el trap, la bachata, o el rock argentino. A través del análisis de algunos productos audiovisuales, este artículo analiza la resignificación de símbolos asociados a la ‘españolidad’ a través del concepto de ‘zonas de contacto’ de Mary Louise Pratt (‘Arts of the Contact Zone’, 1991) en el que la cultura castiza se convierte en una suerte de espacio rizomático para la negociación de símbolos anacrónicos franquistas asociados con lo ‘castizo’ con un presente globalizado, imperativamente latinoamericano por las exigencias del mercado de la música urbana actual.

La manipulación del lenguaje literario: un análisis pragmático de La caverna de José Saramago

Este trabajo pretende analizar doce fragmentos de la obra La caverna de José Saramago, a través de los principios pragmáticos de John Austin, de John Searle y especialmente de los principios de Paul Grice. Esto, para evidenciar las múltiples violaciones abiertas del principio de cooperación y de las máximas conversacionales, actos insinceros, silencios y reducciones en los actos comunicativos de los personajes, que son provocados por la influencia del Centro Comercial. Lo anterior permitirá concluir, desde los aspec- tos literarios y pragmáticos, que el escritor utiliza el lenguaje a través de la figura del Centro Comercial, para manipular los actos comunicativos de los personajes de la obra. Esto para demostrar que propuestas como la de Mary Louise Pratt, que plantea utilizar la pragmática para analizar una obra literaria, son po- sibles.

“Isso é um pé de quê?”: uma análise da performance televisiva de Regina Casé

Seguindo uma perspectiva interdisciplinar, este trabalho investiga a performance televisiva da apresentadora Regina Casé no programa Um pé de quê?, a partir do conceito de exploradorasocial, de Mary Louise Pratt. A inspiração nos viajantes naturalistas europeus do século XIX é analisada através de uma série de episódios desta atração em homenagem a tais figuras, exibida em 2011 no Canal Futura.

Weep for the Coming of Men: Epidemic and Disease in Anglo-Western Colonial Writing of the South Pacific

During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, epidemics ravaged South Pacific islands after contact with Westerners. With no existing immunity to introduced diseases, consequent death tolls on these remote islands were catastrophic. During that period, a succession of significant Anglo-Western writers visited the South Pacific region: Herman Melville, Robert Louis Stevenson, Louis Becke, Jack London, and Fredrick O’Brien. In a remarkable literary conjunction, they each successively visited the Marquesas Islands, which became for them a microcosm of the epidemiological disaster they were witnessing across the Pacific. Instead of the tropical Eden they expected, these writers experienced and wrote about a tainted paradise corrupted and fatally ravaged by contact with Western societies. Even though these writers were looking through the prism of Social Darwinism and extinction discourse, they were all nevertheless appalled at the situation, and their writing is witness to their anguish. Unlike the typical Victorian-era traveller described by Mary Louise Pratt as the “seeing-man”, who remained distanced in their writing from the environment around them, this group wrote with the authority of personal felt experience, bearing witness to the horrific impact of Western society on the physical and mental health of Pacific Island populations. The literary voice of this collection of writers continues to be not only a clear and powerful witness of the past, but also a warning to the present about the impact of ‘civilisation’ on Pacific Island peoples and cultures.

Presentación: Imaginarios, naciones y escritura de mujeres del siglo XIX en América Latina

En este número de la revista América sin Nombre, nos proponemos presentar algunos resultados de investigaciones en curso, sobre la participación de varias mujeres en la construcción de las naciones, tanto escritoras confirmadas como “simples” educadoras o salonnières. Desde artículos, cartas, obras literarias y ensayos, esas voces y esa visión femenina interrumpen el “monólogo masculino”, según la expresión de Mary Louise Pratt, dibujando el eje que vertebra los estudios presentados en estas páginas. Estos artículos fueron redactados después de varios encuentros de investigadores en 2017 y 2018: el primero se fraguó en el Centro de Estudios Literarios Iberoamericanos Mario Benedetti de la Universidad de Alicante, el segundo en la Universidad de Orléans, Francia. Las temáticas han sido así presentadas y discutidas, precisadas por cada especialista y propuestas para este número de América sin nombre.

O Avesso da história: relato de viagem em Galvez, Imperador do Acre

Sob o enredo satírico e humorístico, Galvez Imperador do Acre (1976), de Márcio Souza, narra a trajetória de Dom Luiz Galvez Rodrigues no território acreano e utiliza relatos de viagem sobre a Amazônia de forma a subvertê-los, apresentando um novo olhar sobre o povo e costumes pelos locais os quais transita. Por meio do relato de viagem, esta obra identifica uma outra Amazônia, em uma perspectiva crítica sobre a região. Assim, este trabalho analisa a presença e subversão dos paradigmas de relatos de viagem na obra do autor manauara. Para tanto, serão abordados os estudos de Mary Louise Pratt (1999), Flora Süssekind (1990), Maria Juliana da Silva Medina (2003) e Marli Tereza Furtado (2012).

Rereading Russia through the Contact Zone of HBCUs

This article examines contributions Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have made and continue to make to the interdisciplinary fabric of Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (REEES). HBCUs are a uniquely American phenomenon and reminders of the history of enslavement and segregation in the United States. But HBCUs are also vibrant intellectual contact zones, which Mary Louise Pratt defines as “social spaces where cultures meet, clash, and grapple with each other, often in contexts of highly asymmetrical relations of power.” Contact zones result in intercultural competencies, multilingualism, new methodologies, and critical reassessments. Faculty and alumni have described the extent to which HBCUs function as cultural and discursive sanctuaries. As such, HBCUs are places where legally, culturally, and racially segregated communities develop(ed) alternate ways to engage, experience, and (re)envision “Russia.”