Dirty Hearts

The History of Shindō Renmei

Fernando Morais (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

XX, 281 Seiten

2021 | 1st ed. 2021
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-70561-9 (ISBN)

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Fernando Morais' Dirty Hearts 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 Shind 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.

Seth Jacobowitz is Senior Research Associate at the Dominican Studies Institute at the City University of New York, USA. He is the author of the Edogawa Rampo Reader (2008) and Writing Technology in Meiji Japan: A Media History of Modern Japanese Literature and Visual Culture (2015), which won the 2017 International Convention of Asia Scholars Book Prize in the Humanities. He has been Simon Visiting Professor at University of Manchester, UK, Asakawa Fellow at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan, an invited guest lecturer at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea, and frequent Visiting Researcher to the Center of Japanese Studies at the University of São Paulo, Brazil.

1. Seven Japanese Want to Decapitate a Corporal from the Public Forces: World War II is About to Begin Again.- 2. Subjects of the Axis Powers Cannot Have Radios, Cars, or Money. They Are Not Even Allowed to Speak.- 3. A Little Old Man Terrorizes The Japanese Colony: It Is None Other Than The Wise Colonel Kikawa.- 4. Mizobe Appears to be Swimming in the Air: The First Makegumi Falls Dead.- 5. The Police Discover the Fumie, The Torture That Only Harms a Prisoner's Soul.- 6. Japanese Are Hunted and Dragged Through the Streets of the City: The "Day of Reckoning" Has Arrived.- 7. Eiiti Sakane, The Solitary R nin, Prepares a Blood Bath in Tupã.- 8. Prestes, Capanema, and Gilberto Freyre Take the Stand: The "Yellow Mafia" Splits the Constituent Assembly in Two.- 9. A Tokk tai Will Be Tortured and Killed: The End of Shind Renmei.- 10. The Final Balance: 31,000 Imprisoned, 381 Formally Charged, and 80 Expelled from Brazil, but President Kubitschek Pardons Them All.

Erscheinungsdatum	25.09.2021
Reihe/Serie	Historical and Cultural Interconnections between Latin America and Asia
Übersetzer	Seth Jacobowitz
Zusatzinfo	XX, 281 p. 79 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	524 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
Schlagworte	Adhemar de Barros • Corações Sujos • Estado Novo • Fernando Morais • Jabuti Prize for Journalism • Japanese-Brazilian community • Literary Journalism • Shindo Renmei • Vicente Amorim • World War II
ISBN-10	3-030-70561-7 / 3030705617
ISBN-13	978-3-030-70561-9 / 9783030705619
Zustand	Neuware