Fujitani / White / Yoneyama Perilous Memories

The Asia-Pacific War(s)
1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8105-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 471 Seiten

A rethinking of the differing national memories of the Second World War in the Pacific in light of recent theories of nationalism, imperialism, and colonialism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fujitani, Takashi

White, Geoffrey M.

Yoneyama, Lisa

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction / T. Fujitani, Geoffrey M. White, and Lisa Yoneyama 1

1. Memory Fragments, Memory Images

Absent Images of Memory: Remembering and Reenacting the Japanese Internment / Marita Sturken 33

The Malleable and the Contested: The Nanjing Massacre in Postwar China and Japan / Daqing Yang 50

Memories of War and Okinawa / Ishihara Masaie 87

Images of Islanders in Pacific War Photographs / Lamont Lindstrom 107

Imagery and War in Japan: 1995 / Morio Watanabe 129

2. Politics and Poetics of Liberation

Deliberating “Liberation Day”: Identity, History, Memory, and War in Guam / Vicente M. Diaz 155

Imperial Army Betrayed / Chen Yingzhen 181

Korean “Imperial Soldiers”: Remembering Colonialism and Crimes against Allied POWs / Utsumi Aiko 199

Memory Suppression and Memory Production: The Japanese Occupation of Singapore / Diana Wong 218

Go For Broke, the Movie, Japanese American Soldiers in U.S. National, Military, and Racial Discourses / T. Fujitani 239

Moving History: The Pearl Harbor Film(s) / Geoffrey M. White 267

3. Atonement, Healing, and Unexpected Alliances

“Trapped in History” on the Way to Utopia: East Asia’s “Great War” Fifty Years Later / Arif Dirlik 299

For Transformative Knowledge and Postnationalist Public Spheres: The Smithsonian Enola Gay Controversy / Lisa Yoneyama 323

“Frantic to Join. the Japanese Army”: Black Soldiers and Civilians Confront the Asia Pacific War / George Lipsitz 347

Colonialism and Atom Bombs: About Survivors of Hiroshima Living in Korea / Toyonaga Keisaburo 378

The Politics of War Memories toward Healing / Chungmoo Choi 395

Bibliography 411

Filmography 435

Index 437

Contributors 461

Über Autor(innen)

T. Fujitani is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego and author of Splendid Monarchy: Power and Pageantry in Modern Japan.Geoffrey M. White is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Hawai’i, Senior Fellow at the East-West Center in Honolulu, and author of Identity Through History: Living Stories in a Solomon Islands Society.Lisa Yoneyama is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies and Japanese Studies at University of California, San Diego and author of Hiroshima Traces: Time, Space, and the Dialectics of Memory.