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A discontented diaspora : Japanese Brazilians and the meanings of ethnic militancy, 1960-1980 / Jeffrey Lesser.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lesser, Jeff.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Japanese--Brazil--Ethnic identity.
- Japanese.
- National characteristics, Brazilian.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (251 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Analyzes the experiences of a generation of Japanese-Brazilians in Sao Paulo during the most authoritarian period of military rule in order to ask questions about ethnicity, the nature of diasporic identity, and Brazilian culture.
- Contents:
- Prologue: The Limits of Flexibility
- Introduction: The Pacific Rim in the Atlantic World
- 1. Brazil's Japan: Film and the Space of Ethnicity, 1960/1970
- 2. Beautiful Bodies and (Dis)Appearing Identities: Contesting Images of Japanese-Brazilian Ethnicity, 1970/1980
- 3. Machine Guns and Honest Faces: Japanese-Brazilian Ethnicity and Armed Struggle, 1964/1980
- 4. Two Deaths Remembered
- 5. How Shizuo Osawa Became "Mario the Jap"
- Epilogue: Diaspora and Its Discontents.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-213) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612923616
- 9780822340607
- 0822340607
- 9781282923614
- 1282923617
- OCLC:
- 271166216
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