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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The Okinawan historian, author, and playwright Oshiro Masayasu begins his book Okinawa in the History of the Showa Era by discussing the symbolic role of National Highway 58 in modern Okinawan history. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
turtleback tombs, blue line districts, comfort woman system, occupation literature, occupied populace, sequel edition, reversion movement, male occupiers, occupation era, shoot the sheep, friendship dinner, base town, mainland japan, foreign occupiers, human sheep, occupation soldiers, language circle, black canvas, rape incident, japanese identity, occupied society, occupied subject, regulated prostitution, occupation years, occupation rule Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Prize Stock, Guests From Afar, Human Sheep, Captain Lynch, United States, The Only Ones, Okinawan Boy, Korean War, The Women of Chitose, Female Floodzeall, The Town That Went Pale, Akutagawa Prize, Hiroike Akiko, Okinawa City, Security Treaty, Children of Mixed Blood, Kojima Nobuo, Robert Harris, Sergeant Rose, Arakawa Akira, Misato Village, Nosaka Akiyuki, Vietnam War, Yamada's English, Central Park Avenue New!
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The Okinawan historian, author, and playwright Oshiro Masayasu begins his book Okinawa in the History of the Showa Era by discussing the symbolic role of National Highway 58 in modern Okinawan history. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
turtleback tombs, blue line districts, comfort woman system, occupation literature, occupied populace, sequel edition, reversion movement, male occupiers, occupation era, shoot the sheep, friendship dinner, base town, mainland japan, foreign occupiers, human sheep, occupation soldiers, language circle, black canvas, rape incident, japanese identity, occupied society, occupied subject, regulated prostitution, occupation years, occupation rule Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Prize Stock, Guests From Afar, Human Sheep, Captain Lynch, United States, The Only Ones, Okinawan Boy, Korean War, The Women of Chitose, Female Floodzeall, The Town That Went Pale, Akutagawa Prize, Hiroike Akiko, Okinawa City, Security Treaty, Children of Mixed Blood, Kojima Nobuo, Robert Harris, Sergeant Rose, Arakawa Akira, Misato Village, Nosaka Akiyuki, Vietnam War, Yamada's English, Central Park Avenue New!
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