Brazil displaced: Restaurant 51 in Nagoya, Japan
Abstract This paper examines identity-making among Brazilians, mostly of Japanese descent, who currently reside in Japan. I focus on Restaurante 51, a “restaurante brasileiro” in Nagoya, arguing that 51 forthrightly cultivates a displaced Brazilian identity. Restaurante 51 offers Brazilians familiar...
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2025-07-01
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| description | Abstract This paper examines identity-making among Brazilians, mostly of Japanese descent, who currently reside in Japan. I focus on Restaurante 51, a “restaurante brasileiro” in Nagoya, arguing that 51 forthrightly cultivates a displaced Brazilian identity. Restaurante 51 offers Brazilians familiar food, media, and sociability, at the same time implicitly confirming feelings of loneliness, distance, and dislocation. I emphasize that the displaced Brazilian identity built and reinforced in “restaurantes brasileiros” such as 51, where ethnic difference is strongly profiled against a foreign ground, diverges substantially from a Brazilian identity-in-place that might be encouraged at home by a “restaurante no Brasil.” |
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| spelling | doaj-art-ab68ff5778bf489f9cf22c549b49b74c2025-08-20T03:08:40ZengUniversidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulHorizontes Antropológicos1806-99832025-07-013518120310.1590/s0104-71831997000100008Brazil displaced: Restaurant 51 in Nagoya, JapanDaniel T. LingerAbstract This paper examines identity-making among Brazilians, mostly of Japanese descent, who currently reside in Japan. I focus on Restaurante 51, a “restaurante brasileiro” in Nagoya, arguing that 51 forthrightly cultivates a displaced Brazilian identity. Restaurante 51 offers Brazilians familiar food, media, and sociability, at the same time implicitly confirming feelings of loneliness, distance, and dislocation. I emphasize that the displaced Brazilian identity built and reinforced in “restaurantes brasileiros” such as 51, where ethnic difference is strongly profiled against a foreign ground, diverges substantially from a Brazilian identity-in-place that might be encouraged at home by a “restaurante no Brasil.”http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-71831997000100181&lng=en&tlng=en |
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