No One Home : Brazilian Selves Remade in Japan

Preface xiii Note on Terminology and Names xviii Part One: Orientations Global, Local, Personal 3(16) The Blue Hemisphere 19(26) Part Two: Scenes Postmodern Times 45(12) Middle-School Days 57(17) Eating Brazil 74(21) Part Three: Persons WORKERS ``One day I'm going home'' 95(20) Eduardo Mori ``I defeated them all'' 115(16) Elena Queiroz de Assis Takeda ``All the doors would open'' 131(22) Bernardo Kinjoh STUDENTS ``I lived there, I was born there, I grew up there!'' 153(16) Miriam Moreira ``If it was up to me, I'd never leave Japan'' 169(22) Catarina Noriko Iemura ``To be Brazilian is to be clever'' 191(18) Elisa Aoshima INTERMEDIARIES ``Send me a blond wig!'' 209(18) Rosa Kitagawa ``Even I don't know how I feel'' 227(20) Eriko Miyagi ``The eighth wonder of the world'' 247(28) Naomi Mizutake Part Four: The Nation in the Mind National Banners 275(15) Human Warmth 290(14) Discontinuities 304(13) Glossary 317(4) References 321(14) Index 335