Self-Orientalism and inter-imperiality in Anna Kazumi Stahl’s Flores de un solo día
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ABSTRACT This paper examines the contemporary meanings and functions of self-Orientalism in the Argentine context by analyzing Anna Kazumi Stahl’s novel, Flores de un solo día (2002). The issue of self-Orientalism entails a double intrigue at the individual and collective levels: first, why cultural producers of Asian descent (the ‘Orientalized’) replicate Orientalism; and second, why Orientalism, in its various forms, proliferates in Latin America despite the region’s own marginalized position. Examining Flores de un solo día both within Argentina’s specific context and as part of a global phenomenon of literary self-Orientalism or autoexoticism, this paper argues that the novel self-Orientalizes in order to betray contemporary readers’ expectations for facile resolutions to imperialist Orientalism. Applying Laura Doyle’s framework of ‘inter-imperiality’ we examine how Flores de un solo día ‘writes back’ to multiple empires by tracing Orientalism’s trajectories – from Japan to the United States and Argentina – and by weaving the lingering effects of imperialism from before Columbus to the present. The paper further argues that despite these counterhegemonic effects, the novel reveals its own shifting position as it moves in and out of hegemonic power.
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Chisu Teresa Ko
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- 2018
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- en
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- Semantic Scholar
- DOI
- 10.1080/17442222.2019.1560611
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