Michael S. Molasky

The American Occupation of Japan and Okinawa (eBook, ePUB)

Literature and Memory

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134652785
• Artikelnr.: 42725307

Autorenporträt

Molasky, Michael S.

Inhaltsangabe

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.