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DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the next lecture in the EAS Speaker Series b
 y Andrew Leong (UC Berkeley). Everyone is welcome!\n\nJoin Zoom Meeting\n
 \nhttps://mcgill.zoom.us/j/84659069102\n\nMeeting ID: 846 5906 9102\n\n \n
 \nThe Spiritual Foundation for Settler Life: Japanese North American Liter
 ature\, 1917-1925\n\n \n\nThe recent digitization of early twentieth centu
 ry Japanese-language newspapers has encouraged researchers to take more qu
 antitative approaches toward tracing the emergence of key concepts like “g
 eneration” and “permanent settlement” in Japanese North American discourse
 . This recent quantitative turn has had the strange effect of casting new 
 light on older turns to self-quantification within Japanese North American
  communities of the 1910s and 1920s. While generational terms such as “Iss
 ei” and “Nisei” (first and second generation) are now taken for granted by
  scholars and community members alike\, closer study reveals that their in
 itial propagation was strongly tied to reform campaigns initiated by the J
 apanese Association of America (JAA) in the late 1910s. The statistical me
 thods employed by the JAA bore the strong imprint of the German Historical
  School\, imparted to U.S.-trained Japanese students by American “new gene
 ration” economists and historians. Accordingly\, quantitative self-studies
  of Japanese North American populations readily converted demographic data
  into evidence of “ethnic” or “national” spirit (minzokuteki seishin). Dur
 ing a period in which literature was understood as a vehicle for expressin
 g and cultivating ethno-national “spirit\,” the JAA would join with sympat
 hetic newspaper editors to sponsor literary contests which emphasized the 
 use of generational terms to strengthen the spiritual foundation for perma
 nent settlement.\n\n \n
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SUMMARY:] EAS Speaker Series - The Spiritual Foundation for Settler Life: J
 apanese North American Literature
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 oundation-settler-life-japanese-north-american-literature-329556
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