Japanese fiction of the Allied occupation : : vision, embodiment, identity / / by Sharalyn Orbaugh.

• Author: Orbaugh, Sharalyn.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2007.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Japanese studies library, v. 26; Brill's Japanese Studies Library 26.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (534 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

The reconstruction of identity in post World War II Japan after the trauma of war, defeat and occupation forms the subject of this latest volume in Brill's monograph series Japanese Studies Library. Closely examining the role of fiction produced during the Allied Occupation, Sharalyn Orbaugh begins with an examination of the rhetoric of wartime propaganda, and explores how elements of that rhetoric were redeployed postwar as authors produced fiction linked to the redefinition of what it means to be Japanese. Drawing on tools and methods from trauma studies, gender and race studies, and film and literary theory, the study traces important nodes in the construction and maintenance of discourses of identity through attention to writers’ representations of the gaze, the body, language, and social performance. This book will be of interest to any student of the literary or cultural history of World War II and its aftermath. Japanese Fiction of the Allied Occupation was awarded Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2007 .

Table of Contents

Preliminary Materials / S. Orbaugh -- Chapter One. Introduction Memory, Trauma, Narrative / S. Orbaugh -- Chapter Two. The Allied Occupation / S. Orbaugh -- Chapter Three. The Mirror And The Masquerade Theories Of Vision / S. Orbaugh -- Chapter Four. Vision In Fiction / S. Orbaugh -- Chapter Five. Theories Of Embodiment / S. Orbaugh -- Chapter Six. National Mobilization From Nation To Gunkoku (A Country At War) / S. Orbaugh -- Chapter Seven. The Disarticulated Body Men Writing Men / S. Orbaugh -- Chapter Eight. Production And Reproduction Women Writing Women / S. Orbaugh -- Chapter Nine. Theories Of The Visible Body / S. Orbaugh -- Chapter Ten. The Margins Of Narrative Embodiment / S. Orbaugh -- Chapter Eleven. Conclusion: The Continuing Effects Of Occupation / S. Orbaugh -- Works Cited / S. Orbaugh -- Index / S. Orbaugh.