Circle K Cycles: uma diáspora à brasileira na obra de Karen Tei Yamashita

The intent of this work is to offer a discussion of diaspora, outlined by its consensual features found in the studies of theorists William Safran (1991), Khachig T l lyan (1996), James Clifford (1994), Robin Cohen (1995, 1999), and Paul Gilroy (1999). Here we emphasize the need of a more accurate use of the term diaspora. Simultaneously, we analyze the fictional representation of a Brazilian diasporic formation in Circle K Cycles. In this book, by Japanese-American Karen Tei Yamashita, we identify and problematize diaspora through the means of some characteristics, such as the dispersion and its reasons, the relationship with the homeland, conflicts in the hostland, the myth of return and the ethnic group consciousness.