Japanese Brazilian saudades : diasporic identities & cultural production / Ignacio López-Calvo ; foreword by Jeffrey Lesser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

López-Calvo, Ignacio, author.

Contributor:

Lesser, Jeff, writer of foreward.

Series:

George and Sakaye Aratani Nikkei in the Americas series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japanese--Brazil--Ethnic identity.

Japanese.

Motion pictures--Brazil--History.

Motion pictures.

Brazilian literature.

Authors, Japanese.

Ethnicity.

Brazil.

History.

Brazilian literature--20th century--Japanese authors--History and criticism.

National characteristics, Japanese, in motion pictures.

National characteristics, Japanese, in literature.

Japanese--Ethnic identity.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Louisville, Colorado : University Press of Colorado, 2019.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"Explores the self-definition of Nikkei discourse in Portuguese-language cultural [i.e. 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 perspective"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 12, 2019).

ISBN:

9781607328506

160732850X

OCLC:

1106535580

Publisher Number:

10.2307/j.ctvktrvt3

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.