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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'Molasky's excellent study of Japanese occupation literature is thoroughly researched, well written, and contributes substantially to our understanding of an extremely important but heretofore largely neglected area of postwar Japanese literature.' - The Journal of Asian Studies
'The American Occupation of Japan and Okinawa: Literature and Memory is a definitive work, the result of a Herculean task. Researchers for years to come will be indebted by this groundbreaking project.' - H-Japan
'The American Occupation of Japan and Okinawa: Literature and Memory, is brilliantly realistic from a diverse range of historical, sociological and literary perspectives'- Wendy Ella Wright, electronic journal of contemporary japanese studies , 2007
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Today Japan's postwar ruins lie buried beneath the skyscrapers and mammoth department stores of the nation's prosperity. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
blue line districts, turtleback tombs, ambivalent allegories, occupation literature, occupied populace, sequel edition, male occupiers, reversion movement, occupation era, shoot the sheep, friendship dinner, base town, human sheep, mainland japan, foreign occupiers, occupation soldiers, kokusho kankokai, language circle, regulated prostitution, occupied subject, japanese identity, rape incident, black canvas, occupation years, national allegory Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Prize Stock, United States, Guests From Afar, Captain Lynch, The Only Ones, Korean War, Security Treaty, The Women of Chitose, Vietnam War, Hirabayashi Taiko, Battle of Okinawa, Hiroike Akiko, Nosaka Akiyuki, The Town That Went Pale, Children of Mixed Blood, Nakamoto Takako, Sanno Hotel, Akutagawa Prize, Higashi Mineo, Okinawa City, Black Camas, Kojima Nobuo, Misato Village, Robert Harris, Ryukyu Kingdom New!
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Today Japan's postwar ruins lie buried beneath the skyscrapers and mammoth department stores of the nation's prosperity. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
blue line districts, turtleback tombs, ambivalent allegories, occupation literature, occupied populace, sequel edition, male occupiers, reversion movement, occupation era, shoot the sheep, friendship dinner, base town, human sheep, mainland japan, foreign occupiers, occupation soldiers, kokusho kankokai, language circle, regulated prostitution, occupied subject, japanese identity, rape incident, black canvas, occupation years, national allegory Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Prize Stock, United States, Guests From Afar, Captain Lynch, The Only Ones, Korean War, Security Treaty, The Women of Chitose, Vietnam War, Hirabayashi Taiko, Battle of Okinawa, Hiroike Akiko, Nosaka Akiyuki, The Town That Went Pale, Children of Mixed Blood, Nakamoto Takako, Sanno Hotel, Akutagawa Prize, Higashi Mineo, Okinawa City, Black Camas, Kojima Nobuo, Misato Village, Robert Harris, Ryukyu Kingdom New!
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