Bodies of Memory : : Narratives of War in Postwar Japanese Culture, 1945-1970 /

Bodies of Memory : : Narratives of War in Postwar Japanese Culture, 1945-1970 / / Yoshikuni Igarashi.

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Japan and the United States became close political allies so quickly after the end of World War II, that it seemed as though the two countries had easily forgotten the war they had fought. Here Yoshikuni Igarashi offers a provocative look at how Japanese postwar society struggled to understand its w...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
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Igarashi, Yoshikuni,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012]
©2000
Year of Publication:2012
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.) :; 13 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Bomb, Hirohito, and History: The Foundational Narrative of Postwar Relations between Japan and the United States
  • 2. The Age of the Body
  • 3. A Nation That Never Is: Cultural Discourse on Japanese Uniqueness
  • 4. Naming the Unnameable
  • 5. From the Anti-Security Treaty Movement to the Tokyo Olympics: Transforming the Body, the Metropolis, and Memory
  • 6. Re-presenting Trauma in Late-1960s Japan
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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