Abstract
A two-way immigration flow has been established between Brazil and Japan, and many Japanese-Brazilian families have their memories shaped by these transnational movements. By collecting life stories from first-, second-, third-, and fourth-generation women from the same family, we found that their memories are highly intermingled with food-related memories, which embrace sensory perceptions. From in-depth interviews collected in Brazil and Japan, we draw understanding of how flavor, sensations, and even practices involved in eating and cooking frame the memories of Japanese-Brazilian women. The theoretical discussion plays a very important role in the article because we discuss new developments inside memory studies and question the Cartesian, Western, and rationalized ways of interpreting mnemonic narratives.
