Prof Araceli Tinajero Discusses Her New Book, "A Cultural History of Spanish Speakers in Japan" with Prof Shigeko Mato, Waseda University, Japan

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Professor Araceli Tinajero Discusses Her New Book

A Cultural History of Spanish Speakers in Japan
with Professor Shigeko Mato, Waseda University, Japan

Beginning in 1990, thousands of Spanish speakers emigrated to Japan. A Cultural History of Spanish Speakers in Japan (Palgrave, 2021) focuses on the intellectuals, literature, translations, festivals, cultural associations, music (bolero, tropical music, and pop, including reggaeton), dance (flamenco, tango and salsa), radio, newspapers, magazines, libraries, and blogs produced in Spanish, in Japan, by Latin Americans and Spaniards who have lived in that country over the last three decades.

Araceli Tinajero is the author of Orientalismo en el modernismo hispanoamericano; El Lector: A History of the Cigar Factory Reader; and Kokoro: A Mexican Woman in Japan. She is also the editor of volumes on the Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian World, Cuba, and Mexico. Before joining CCNY and The Graduate Center, she taught Japanese at the University of Wales and Spanish at Yale.

Shigeko Mato is professor of Spanish and Latin American Literature. She has published several articles in world-wide journals and is the author of Las voces que entrecruzan el Perú y Japón (The voices that intertwine Peru and Japan) and the co-author of the forthcoming book The Poetic Artistry of José Watanabe (with Randy Muth and Alfredo López-Pasarín Basabe).

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