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Transpacific Connections: Literary and Cultural Production by and about Latin American Nikkeijin is a cross-cultural work combining Latin American and Japanese studies. It contains original research on social and cultural relations between Japan and Latin America, ranging from Japanese inspirations in one of the Mexican most renowned poets, Brazilian dekasegi (temporary workers in Japan) described in a variety of testimonials, Japanese community in Brazil and its literary production and a Mexican telenovela, inspired by the Japanese culture to European inspirations in a Nikkei Peruvian writer, Higa Oshiro.
This book is an intellectual, artistic and social journey through Japan, Latin America and Europe, brought by both experienced and promising researchers who have conducted studies, projects and research all over the globe and have worked in multicultural and multilinguistic environments.
Maja Zawierzeniec, Ph.D., is a Polish Mexicanist, translator, TEDxWarsawWomen speaker and TEDxMarszalkowska organizer, and a trilingual poet, who has collaborated with a number of renowned Polish and foreign universities and other institutions as a lecturer and in a variety of cultural, social and artistic projects. She has published La mujerenel mundolatinoamericano. Literatura, historia, sociedad - elcaso de M騙ico (2015); Las voces sordas. El capital creativo del narco M騙ico contempor疣eo (1985-2015) (two editions: 2016 and 2018), y El glosarioesencial del lenguaje del narcoenel M騙ico contempor疣eo (2018) as well as four poetry books and several research articles (Mexican culture and literature, narcoculture and narcoliterature, relations between Mexico and East Asia and linguistics).
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