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Daniel Arrieta
Department Kyoto University of Foreign Studies Department of Hispanic Studies, Faculty of Foreign Studies Position Associate Professor |
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| Language | Spanish |
| Publication Date | 2023/05 |
| Type | Book review |
| Peer Review | Peer reviewed |
| Title | The Poetic Artistry of José Watanabe: Separating the Craft from the Discourse, Randy Muth, Alfredo López-Pasarín Basabe y Shigeko Mato. Palgrave MacMillan, 2021, 191 pp. |
| Contribution Type | Single author |
| Journal Type | Japan |
| Volume, Issue, Page | pp.111-115 |
| Total page number | 5 |
| Authorship | Lead author |
| Details | This book, written by three prestigious academics residing in Japan, represents an approach to the figure and work of José Watanabe from three different perspectives that, with greater or lesser success, end up converging around the leitmotif, repeated through the text: dismantle the supposed Japaneseness of the work of this Japanese-Peruvian writer. If we were to make a quick description of the organization of the book, we would see that Randy Muth's chapter contains a transcendent critical approach, based on the field of orientalism studies and theories of narrative identity; Alfredo López-Pasarín Basabe's analysis, for its part, is purely immanent, focusing on the poetic text; and finally, Shigeko Mato's chapter represents a kind of compromise between the previous two ones, based on its approach within the theories of reading reception. |