Overview
- 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
Part of the book series: Historical and Cultural Interconnections between Latin America and Asia (HCILAA)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Reviews
“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)
“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)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
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. Corações Sujos (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.
Seth Jacobowitz is Assistant Professor of Japanese in the Department of World Languages & Literatures at Texas State University, USA. 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).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Dirty Hearts
Book Subtitle: The History of Shindō Renmei
Authors: Fernando Morais
Translated by: Seth Jacobowitz
Series Title: Historical and Cultural Interconnections between Latin America and Asia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70562-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-70561-9Published: 27 November 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-70564-0Published: 28 November 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-70562-6Published: 26 November 2021
Series ISSN: 2946-4277
Series E-ISSN: 2946-4285
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 281
Number of Illustrations: 79 b/w illustrations
Topics: Journalism, Latin American History, Latin American Culture, Latin American/Caribbean Literature, History of Japan