Michelle Har Kim
Michelle Har Kim recebeu seu doutorado em Literatura Comparada pela University of Southern California. Sua dissertação, "Antípodas da Literatura Asiático-Americana: Heterolinguismo e as Américas Asiáticas" (2012), explora uma série de textos asiático-americanos escritos em espanhol e/ou que citam vidas diaspóricas asiáticas nas Américas.
Atualizado em setembro de 2012
Stories from This Author
José Watanabe
6 de Março de 2011 • Michelle Har Kim
“The children of Japanese immigrants, we heard...that someday the whole family would return to Japan. The dream wasn’t too convincing, not even for our parents”1. The fifth of eleven children, the Japanese Peruvian poet José Watanabe (1946-2007) spent his early childhood in the sugar plantation town of Laredo, about three hundred miles north of Lima, in the region of La Libertad. There his issei migrant father met and married his Peruvian mother—“a mestiza Peruvian,” Watanabe elaborates in a recent interview.2 …
