Details

Dirty Hearts


Dirty Hearts

The History of Shindō Renmei
Historical and Cultural Interconnections between Latin America and Asia

von: Fernando Morais

74,89 €

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 26.11.2021
ISBN/EAN: 9783030705626
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 281

Dieses eBook enthält ein Wasserzeichen.

Beschreibungen

Fernando Morais’ <i>Dirty Hearts</i> is a tour de force of literary journalism that investigates the discriminatory treatment of the Japanese immigrant community in Brazil during World War II and in the aftermath of Japan’s defeat and unconditional surrender. In contrast to the internment camps and compulsory military service that characterized the Japanese American wartime experience, this book traces the rise to power of Shindō Renmei, an ultranationalist secret society that formed in response to the anti-Japanese measures enacted under Getulio Vargas’ Estado Novo. Based in São Paulo, the group used terrorism, propaganda campaigns, and conspiracy theories to violently enforce its narrative of Japan’s victory. These traumatic events nevertheless brought about a permanent transformation in the Japanese Brazilian community from a largely insular colony with close ties to its imperial homeland to its new identity as an ethnic minority in postwar Brazil’s fraught racial democracy.&nbsp;<br>
<div>1. Seven Japanese Want to Decapitate a Corporal from the Public Forces: World War II is About to Begin Again.-&nbsp;2. Subjects of the Axis Powers Cannot Have Radios, Cars, or Money. They Are Not Even Allowed to Speak.-&nbsp;3. A Little Old Man Terrorizes The Japanese Colony: It Is None Other Than The Wise Colonel Kikawa.-&nbsp;4. Mizobe Appears to be Swimming in the Air: The First Makegumi Falls Dead.-&nbsp;5. The Police Discover the <i>Fumie</i>, The Torture That Only Harms a Prisoner’s Soul.-&nbsp;6. Japanese Are Hunted and Dragged Through the Streets of the City: The “Day of Reckoning” Has Arrived.-&nbsp;7. Eiiti Sakane, The Solitary Rōnin, Prepares a Blood Bath in Tupã.-&nbsp;8. Prestes, Capanema, and Gilberto Freyre Take the Stand: The “Yellow Mafia” Splits the Constituent Assembly in Two.-&nbsp;9. A <i>Tokkōtai</i> Will Be Tortured and Killed: The End of Shindō Renmei.- 10. The Final Balance: 31,000 Imprisoned, 381 Formally Charged, and 80 Expelled from Brazil, but President Kubitschek Pardons Them All.</div>
<p>Fernando Morais (b. 1946) is a Brazilian journalist, writer, and politician. He is the author of nine books, which include his biographies of Communist operative Olga Benário Prestes, media mogul Assis Chateaubriand, Brazilian Air Force Marshal Casimiro Montenegro Filho, and best-selling author Paulo Coelho. His own works have sold over two million copies in nineteen countries, and four of his books have been made into films. He received the Prêmio Esso three times and Prêmio Abril four times for his journalistic work. <i>Corações Sujos</i> (Dirty Hearts, 2000) was awarded the Jabuti Award, the Brazilian equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize, in the category of Best Nonfiction Book of the Year in 2001.&nbsp;</p>

<p></p><p>Seth Jacobowitz is Assistant Professor of Japanese in the Department of World Languages & Literatures at Texas State University, USA.&nbsp;He is the author of Writing Technology in Meiji Japan: A Media History of Modern Japanese Literature and Visual Culture (Harvard Asia Center, 2015), which won the 2017 International Convention of Asia Scholars Book Prize in the Humanities. He is also the translator of the Edogawa Rampo Reader (Kurodahan Press, 2008).&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<br></p><br><p></p>
<div><p>​Fernando Morais’&nbsp;<i>Dirty Hearts</i>&nbsp;is a tour de force of literary journalism that investigates the discriminatory treatment of the Japanese immigrant community in Brazil during World War II and in the aftermath of Japan’s defeat and unconditional surrender. In contrast to the internment camps and compulsory military service that characterized the Japanese American wartime experience, this book traces the rise to power of Shindō Renmei, an ultranationalist secret society that formed in response to the anti-Japanese measures enacted under Getulio Vargas’ Estado Novo. Based in São Paulo, the group used terrorism, propaganda campaigns, and conspiracy theories to violently enforce its narrative of Japan’s victory. These traumatic events nevertheless brought about a permanent transformation in the Japanese Brazilian community from a largely insular colony with close ties to its imperial homeland to its new identity as an ethnic minority in postwar Brazil’s fraught racialdemocracy.</p></div>
A translation of Fernando Morais’ Corações Sujos Sheds light on the origins and development of the Japanese-Brazilian community during the crucible years immediately prior to and following WWII Offers crucial background on the Vargas Era, and the extent to which discriminatory measures the newly arrived Japanese immigrants faced under the Estado Novo
“Fernando Morais’ Dirty Hearts reveals how the secret society Shindō Renmei (League of Subjects of the Imperial Way) sought to control the Japanese immigrants in Brazil from 1942-47 by hewing to a fanatical insistence that Japan won the war. As Seth Jacobowitz explores in his introduction, we may find echoes elsewhere amongst those who lost a homeland or were interned, as well as in the methods of comparable authoritarian groups that live by ‘alternative facts.’” (K. David Jackson, Yale University)&nbsp;<p>“Fernando Morais addresses the conditions that empowered Shindō Renmei with radical consequences for the Japanese Brazilian community. Seth Jacobowitz’s critical introduction builds with great sensitivity on Dirty Hearts’ historical and political contexts, and activates new reflections about the relations between Brazil and Japan in the contemporary world.” (Christine Greiner, Center for Oriental Studies, Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo)&nbsp;</p>

<p>“Morais’ Dirty Hearts is of unquestionable value to the study of identity, immigration, and the formation of political values. Jacobowitz’s able translation and critical introduction are exemplary contributions to the transnational history of the twentieth century. Scholars of modern Japan and Brazil can no longer to afford to ignore each other, and Jacobowitz helps us understand the place of ultranationalism in the age of empire and globalisation.” (Aaron W. Moore, Handa Chair of Japanese-Chinese Relations, University of Edinburgh)</p>

Diese Produkte könnten Sie auch interessieren:

Journalismus pur: Albtraum oder Traumjob
Journalismus pur: Albtraum oder Traumjob
von: Claudia Grimmer
PDF ebook
29,99 €
Journalismus und Medien als Organisationen
Journalismus und Medien als Organisationen
von: Klaus-Dieter Altmeppen
PDF ebook
52,99 €
Unter Druck
Unter Druck
von: Friederike Herrmann
PDF ebook
29,99 €