| The Japanese Community in Brazil, 1908 - 1940: Between Samurai and Carnival 2001 Edition Contributor(s): Lone, S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0333636864 ISBN-13: 9780333636862 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2001 Annotation: The largest Japanese community outside East Asia in the 1930s and one long neglected in English-language scholarship was in Brazil. Drawing heavily on little-used sources, including the Japanese-language press of Brazil, Stewart Lone explores the growth of expatriate settlements, small businesses, schools, civic groups, and sports and leisure. Lone reinterprets issues of Japanese identity and relations with other peoples. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Social Science | Emigration & Immigration - History | Latin America - General |
| Dewey: 305.895 |
| LCCN: 2001035820 |
| Lexile Measure: 1460 |
| Physical Information: 0.74" H x 5.74" W x 8.8" (0.99 lbs) 209 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Japanese - Cultural Region - Latin America |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: On the eve of the Pacific war (1941-45), there were 198,000 Japanese in Brazil, the largest expatriate body outside East Asia. Yet the origins of this community have been obscured. The English-language library is threadbare while Japanese scholars routinely insist that life outside of Japan was filled with shock and hardship so that, as one historian asserted, 'their bodies were in Brazil but their minds were always in Japan'. This study redraws the world of the overseas Japanese. Using the Japanese-language press of Brazil, it explains the development of a community with its own, often aggressively independent or ironic views of identity, institutions, education, leisure, and on Japan itself. Emphasising the success of Japanese migrants and the openness of Brazilian society, it challenges the perceived wisdom that contact between Japanese and other peoples was always marked by hostility and racism. |
