Аннотация:Over the last quarter-century, a growing body of scholarship has emerged that examines the historical and cultural intersection of Black and Japanese lives.These Afro-Japanese encounters, as the title of this volume suggests, constitute a discursive metaphor of transnational movement, discovery, and engagement.In their introduction, William H. Bridges IV and Nina Cornyetz describe their work as constituting a 'new wave' of scholarship on cultural, intellectual, and artistic 'transracial exchange[s]' (p.13) between Japan and diasporic Black culture and communities, noting that texts produced by such encounters tell 'new stories' which, in the case of the volume at hand, include those heretofore untold in part because traditional disciplinary boundaries have impeded their production.Traveling texts and the work of Afro-Japanese cultural production successfully transgresses these disciplinary boundaries, covering a range of topics as eclectic and syncretic as the encounters themselves.It is divided into three sections: 'Art and performance', 'Poetry and literature', and 'Sound, song, music', with chapters covering such topics as ganguro subculture (Cornyetz, chap.2); the African American blackface ukiyo-e portraits of conceptual artist iROZEALb (Crystal S.
