Daniel Arrieta    Department   Kyoto University of Foreign Studies  Department of Hispanic Studies, Faculty of Foreign Studies    Position   Associate Professor
Date	2016/11/12
Presentation Theme	O Sol se Põe em São Paulo: A Brazilian Intertext of Tanizaki Junichirô in the Light of Joerg Schmitz's Cultural Orientations Approach
Conference	Japan Comparative Literature Association. Kansai section. 52th Conferences
Promoters	甲南大学
Conference Type	Local
Presentation Type	Speech (General)
Contribution Type	Individual
Details	In 2007, Brazilian author Bernardo Carvalho published O sol se põe em São Paulo, a novel mainly based on Tanizaki Junichiro's Quicksand (Manji). Tanizaki’s implied author and “mute” character, the sensei, becomes in Carvalho’s novel a Brazilian nikkei writer, who eventually travels to Japan. The change of perspective and a more active presence of the nikkei as a homodiegetic narrator turns Tanizaki’s fictional world into a dialogue of cultures that shows a number of misunderstandings and communication gaps. Using Joerg’s Schmitz’s Cultural Orientations Approach in the field of Intercultural Communication, I try to study how the intertextual literary work by Carvalho intertwines with the three basic dimensions contained in the above mentioned theory: behavioral gaps, cognitive gaps, and gaps in how we experience ourselves in the world.