Japanese Brazilian Saudades : Diasporic Identities and Cultural Production /

Japanese Brazilian Saudades explores the self-definition of Nikkei discourse in Portuguese-language cultural production by Brazilian authors of Japanese ancestry. Ignacio López-Calvo uses books and films by twentieth-century Nikkei authors as case studies to redefine the ideas of Brazilianness and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: López-Calvo, Ignacio (Author)
Other Authors: Lesser, Jeff (writer of foreward.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Louisville, Colorado : University Press of Colorado, 2019.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
National characteristics, Japanese, in motion pictures.
National characteristics, Japanese, in literature.
Motion pictures.
Japanese > Ethnic identity.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Japonais dans la litterature.
Japonais au cinema.
Litterature bresilienne > 20e siecle > Auteurs japonais > Histoire et critique.
Cinema > Bresil > Histoire.
Brazilian literature > 20th century > Japanese authors > History and criticism.
Motion pictures > Brazil > History.
Japanese > Brazil > Ethnic identity.
Brazil.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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