Benjamin Hiramatsu Ireland
Biographic Data
| ID | 3063193 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin Hiramatsu Ireland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin Hiramatsu |
| FAMILY NAME | Ireland |
| SIGNATURE | IRELAND B H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas Christian University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9952-5306 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The photographs of Ma sœur aux yeux d’Asie
This article examines Michel Ragon's Ma sœur aux yeux d’Asie (1982) to retrace the identity of his métisse , Franco-Cambodian half-sister, Odette Ragon, who occupies a central yet precarious place in the narrative. Drawing on interviews, notably with the author's wife Françoise Ragon, this study shows how Ragon's autofiction constructs largely fabricated versions of his father, his father's experiences in colonial Indochina, and his half-sister, …
A Frenchman in Tokyo
The article examines Endō Shūsaku’s Wonderful Fool (1959) through the lens of disability studies to argue that the novel’s protagonist Gaston Bonaparte—a Frenchman and failed seminary candidate prone to misadventures in Tokyo—subverts cultural structures of ableism in postwar Japanese society. Described as a horse-faced man with a monstrous physicality, Gaston embodies a disabled Christ figure whose presentation integrates numerous transcultural …
The Japanese in New Caledonia
This article explores the history of the Japanese in New Caledonia at the turn of the twentieth century before considering how the French Pacific empire ordered the incarceration and deportation of nearly all Japanese subjects in New Caledonia to Australian internment camps. Retracing this neglected history through testimonies of descendants of incarcerated Japanese, as well as through archived governmental reports, this study first examines the …
Nippo-Kanaks in Post-War New Caledonia
This article interrogates both the legal and social identities of Japanese-Melanesians (or ‘Nippo-Kanaks’) residing in the Free French territory of New Caledonia at the beginning of the twentieth century to the years following the Second World War. The first part of the article details how, fearing an imminent Japanese attack on New Caledonia after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the French Empire began the process of deporting nearly all Japanese e…
Daniel Honoré’s Ma Chine-nation
This article examines an uncirculated French-language poetic collection written by half-Chinese, half-African Reunionese poet Daniel Honoré. Entitled Ma Chine-nation (1995), the collection recounts among many episodes the return of the Afrasian poet to his father's homeland of China and his self-identification to persecuted maroons in La Réunion during colonial times. Offering a window into the poet's relationship toward China, Africa, and La Réu…
Savouring the Francophone Asia-Pacific
This article interrogates the neglected relationships between métissage, corporeality, memory and foodways within Francophone Asia-Pacific literatures written by Asiatic migrant writers of the French language. By focusing specifically on two texts, Ook Chung’s Kimchi (2001) and Jimmy Ly’s Bonbon soeurette et pai coco (1997), this study explores the various constructions of mixed-race, multiethnic diasporic identity through the intake and symbolis…
The Japanese in New Caledonia
This article explores the history of the Japanese in New Caledonia at the turn of the twentieth century before considering how the French Pacific empire ordered the incarceration and deportation of nearly all Japanese subjects in New Caledonia to Australian internment camps. Retracing this neglected history through testimonies of descendants of incarcerated Japanese, as well as through archived governmental reports, this study first examines the …
Savouring the Francophone Asia-Pacific
This article interrogates the neglected relationships between métissage, corporeality, memory and foodways within Francophone Asia-Pacific literatures written by Asiatic migrant writers of the French language. By focusing specifically on two texts, Ook Chung’s Kimchi (2001) and Jimmy Ly’s Bonbon soeurette et pai coco (1997), this study explores the various constructions of mixed-race, multiethnic diasporic identity through the intake and symbolis…
Daniel Honoré’s Ma Chine-nation
This article examines an uncirculated French-language poetic collection written by half-Chinese, half-African Reunionese poet Daniel Honoré. Entitled Ma Chine-nation (1995), the collection recounts among many episodes the return of the Afrasian poet to his father's homeland of China and his self-identification to persecuted maroons in La Réunion during colonial times. Offering a window into the poet's relationship toward China, Africa, and La Réu…
Nippo-Kanaks in Post-War New Caledonia
This article interrogates both the legal and social identities of Japanese-Melanesians (or ‘Nippo-Kanaks’) residing in the Free French territory of New Caledonia at the beginning of the twentieth century to the years following the Second World War. The first part of the article details how, fearing an imminent Japanese attack on New Caledonia after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the French Empire began the process of deporting nearly all Japanese e…
The Japanese in New Caledonia
This article explores the history of the Japanese in New Caledonia at the turn of the twentieth century before considering how the French Pacific empire ordered the incarceration and deportation of nearly all Japanese subjects in New Caledonia to Australian internment camps. Retracing this neglected history through testimonies of descendants of incarcerated Japanese, as well as through archived governmental reports, this study first examines the …
A Frenchman in Tokyo
The article examines Endō Shūsaku’s Wonderful Fool (1959) through the lens of disability studies to argue that the novel’s protagonist Gaston Bonaparte—a Frenchman and failed seminary candidate prone to misadventures in Tokyo—subverts cultural structures of ableism in postwar Japanese society. Described as a horse-faced man with a monstrous physicality, Gaston embodies a disabled Christ figure whose presentation integrates numerous transcultural …
The photographs of Ma sœur aux yeux d’Asie
This article examines Michel Ragon's Ma sœur aux yeux d’Asie (1982) to retrace the identity of his métisse , Franco-Cambodian half-sister, Odette Ragon, who occupies a central yet precarious place in the narrative. Drawing on interviews, notably with the author's wife Françoise Ragon, this study shows how Ragon's autofiction constructs largely fabricated versions of his father, his father's experiences in colonial Indochina, and his half-sister, …
History (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Ethnology (4 works) · History (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Genealogy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture (2 works)