“Haru and Natsu”: television narrative and japanese identity in Brazil

Abstract

This work aims to analyze the miniseries Haru and Natsu – the letters that didn’t arrive produced by the Japanese broadcast corporation NHK and aired in Brazil by Bandeirantes Network, as part of the narrative enterprise of the Japanese immigration saga, claiming that the television fiction, when it shares views and knowledge about certain societies and time periods, becomes itself “documental and historical memory” (MOTTER 2000/2001). The miniseries is also approached in this work as a narrative about the nation, seen not as a territory but as a collection of identity resources. Moreover, it explores the relationship between the epistolary genre – used in this miniseries as a central narrative resource – and the author’s feminine perspective on the events concerning the Japanese immigration to Brazil.