Araceli Tinajero

Araceli Tinajero is professor of Hispanic Literatures at The City College of New York/CUNY and the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the author of Orientalismo en el modernismo hispanoamericano; El Lector: A History of the Cigar Factory Reader; Kokoro: A Mexican Woman in Japan; and A Cultural History of Spanish Speakers in Japan. Tinajero is the editor of Cultura y letras cubanas en el siglo XXI; Exilio y cosmopolitismo en el arte y la literatura hispánica; and Orientalisms of the Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian World. She has co-edited Technology and Culture in Twentieth Century México (with J. Brian Freeman) and Handbook on Cuban History, Literature, and the Arts: New Perspectives on Historical and Contemporary Social Change (with Mauricio Font).

A Cultural History of Spanish Speakers in Japan

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Beginning in 1990, thousands of Spanish speakers emigrated to Japan. A Cultural History of Spanish Speakers in Japan focuses on the intellectuals, literature, translations, festivals, cultural associations, music (bolero, tropical music, and pop, including reggaeton), dance (flamenco, tango and salsa), radio, newspapers, magazines, libraries, and blogs produced in Spanish, in Japan, by Latin Americans and Spaniards who have lived in that country over the last three decades.

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