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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780601703321

Autore

Lesser Jeff

Titolo

A discontented diaspora [[electronic resource] ] : Japanese Brazilians and the meanings of ethnic militancy, 1960-1980 / / Jeffrey Lesser

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, : Duke University Press, 2007

ISBN

0-8223-4060-7

9786612923616

1-282-92361-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (251 p.)

Disciplina

305.895/6081

Soggetti

Japanese - Brazil - Ethnic identity

National characteristics, Brazilian

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-213) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.