A multidisciplinary study of the transnational cultural identity of Brazilian nationals of Japanese descent and their more recent attempts to re-settle in Japan.
A multidisciplinary study of the transnational cultural identity of Brazilian nationals of Japanese descent and their more recent attempts to re-settle in Japan.
Jeffrey Lesser is Professor of History and Director of the Program in Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Emory University. He is the author, most recently, of Negotiating National Identity: Immigrants, Minorities, and the Struggle for Ethnicity in Brazil, also published by Duke University Press.
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Acknowledgments ix Glossary xi Introduction: Looking for Home in All the Wrong Places / Jeffrey Lesser 1 Japanese, Brazilians, Nikkei: A Short History of Identity Building and Homemaking / Jeffrey Lesser 5 Speaking in the Tongue of Antipode: Japanese Brazilian Fantasy on the Origin of Language / Shuhei Hosokawa 21 Identity Transformations among Okinawans and Their Descendants in Brazil / Koichi Mori 47 Interlude: Circle K Rules / Karen Tei Yamashita 67 Searching for Home, Wealth, Pride, and "Class": Japanese Brazilians in the "Land of Yen" / Angelo Ishi 75 Urashima Taro's Ambiguating Practices: The Significance of Overseas Voting Rights for Elderly Japanese Migrants to Brazil / Joshua Hotaka Roth 103 Homeland-less Abroad: Transnational Liminality, Social Alienation, and Personal Malaise / Takeyuki (Gaku) Tsuda 121 Feminization of Japanese Brazilian Labor Migration to Japan / Keiko Yamanaka 163 Do Japanese Brazilians Exist? / Daniel T. Linger 201 Contributors 215 Index 217
Acknowledgments ix Glossary xi Introduction: Looking for Home in All the Wrong Places / Jeffrey Lesser 1 Japanese, Brazilians, Nikkei: A Short History of Identity Building and Homemaking / Jeffrey Lesser 5 Speaking in the Tongue of Antipode: Japanese Brazilian Fantasy on the Origin of Language / Shuhei Hosokawa 21 Identity Transformations among Okinawans and Their Descendants in Brazil / Koichi Mori 47 Interlude: Circle K Rules / Karen Tei Yamashita 67 Searching for Home, Wealth, Pride, and "Class": Japanese Brazilians in the "Land of Yen" / Angelo Ishi 75 Urashima Taro's Ambiguating Practices: The Significance of Overseas Voting Rights for Elderly Japanese Migrants to Brazil / Joshua Hotaka Roth 103 Homeland-less Abroad: Transnational Liminality, Social Alienation, and Personal Malaise / Takeyuki (Gaku) Tsuda 121 Feminization of Japanese Brazilian Labor Migration to Japan / Keiko Yamanaka 163 Do Japanese Brazilians Exist? / Daniel T. Linger 201 Contributors 215 Index 217
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