Japanese Brazilian saudades : diasporic identities & cultural production /

Explores the self-definition of Nikkei discourse in Portuguese-language culture by Brazilian authors of Japanese ancestry. Using books and films by twentieth-century Nikkei authors as case studies to redefine the ideas of Brazilianness and Japaneseness from both a national and a transnational perspe...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	López-Calvo, Ignacio (Author)
Other Authors:	Lesser, Jeff (writer of foreward.)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2019]
Series:	George and Sakaye Aratani Nikkei in the Americas series.
Subjects:	Japanese > Brazil > Ethnic identity. Motion pictures > Brazil > History. Brazilian literature > 20th century > Japanese authors > History and criticism. National characteristics, Japanese, in motion pictures. National characteristics, Japanese, in literature.

Table of Contents:

Foreword / by Jeffrey Lesser
Introduction : diasporas, unstable identities, and Nikkei discourse
Historical memory and claiming place
Between assimilationism and cultural celebration
Female agency, nostalgia, and generational gaps
The impact of World War II on the Nikkeijin
Contested modernities : Dekasegi (self-)representations and the Nipponization of Brazil
Brazilian Dekasegi children in Japanese film.