Japanese Brazilian Saudades: Diasporic Identities and Cultural Production

by Ignacio López-Calvo

Japanese Brazilian Saudades explores the self-definition of Nikkei discourse in Portuguese-language cultural production by Brazilian authors of Japanese ancestry. Ignacio L pez-Calvo uses 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. The result suggests an alternative model of postcoloniality, particularly as it...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1607328496
• ISBN13: 9781607328490
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: University Press of Colorado
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up