E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten
Molasky The American Occupation of Japan and Okinawa
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-1-134-65278-5
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
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Literature and Memory
E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten
Reihe: Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations
ISBN: 978-1-134-65278-5
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
How do the Japanese and Okinawans remember Occupation? How is memory constructed and transmitted? Michael Molasky explores these questions through careful, sensitive readings of literature from mainland Japan and Okinawa. This book sheds light on difficult issues of war, violence, prostitution, colonialism and post-colonialism in the context of the Occupations of Japan and Okinawa.
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Preface. Introduction: Burned-Out Ruins and Barbed-Wire Fences. The Occupation of Japan as History. The Occupation in Mainland Japanese Literature and Criticism. Okinawa: From Premodern Kingdom to Japanese Prefecture. The Battle of Okinawa and the American Occupation (1945-1972). Chapter Summaries. Notes
Chapter One: Roads to No-Man's Land. Language,Landscape and Gender in "The American School". Gender, History and the Construction of Victimhood in The Cocktail Party. Fact and Fiction. Notes
Chapter Two: A Base Town In The Literary Imagination. An Okinawan Boy. "The Town That Went Pale". "Children of Mixed Blood" and the Remaking of Koza. Notes
Chapter Three: A Darker Shade of Difference. Representing Blacks in Postwar Japan. Race and Narrative Ambivalance in "Prize Stock". Reporting Truth, Imagining Motives: "Painting on Black Canvas". Poetry of Protest: Arakawa Akira's "The Coloured Race". Notes
Chapter Four: Female Floodwalls. The Recreation and Amusement Association. Prostitution After the RAA. Prostitution and the Japanese Publishing Industry. The Chastity of Japan. Female Floodwall. Notes
Chapter Five: Ambivalent Allegories. The Generational Logic of "Guests From Afar". Prostitution and Other Honest Jobs: "The Only Ones". Caste and Outcasts: "Women of a Base Town". Marriage, Money and Desire: "The Women of Chitose, Hokkaido". Notes
Chapter Six: The Occupier Within. Reproducing The Occupation: "Human Sheep". Style as Story: Narrative Technique and Memory in "American Hijiki". Notes
Epilogue: Occupation Literature in the Post-Vietnam Era. Okinawan Literature Since the Vietnam War. Saegusa Kazuko's A Winter's Death. Notes.
