Zelideth María Rivas

Zelideth María Rivas is a Professor of Japanese at Marshall University. Her research focuses on the conception of race through literature written by Asian immigrants in the Americas, as well as the representation of race in Japan in post-World War II literature and film. Her work has appeared in Oxford Research Encyclopedias, Journal of Asian American Studies, and Verge. She is the co-editor of Imagining Asia in the Americas (Rutgers University Press, 2016). She is currently completing a book manuscript on Japanese Brazilian cultural productions titled Migrant Circuits: Japanese in Brazil, Brazilians in Japan.

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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