Alegal : : Biopolitics and the Unintelligibility of Okinawan Life / / Annmaria M. Shimabuku.
Okinawan life, at the crossroads of American militarism and Japanese capitalism, embodies a fundamental contradiction to the myth of the monoethnic state. Suspended in a state of exception, Okinawans have never been officially classified as colonial subjects of the Japanese empire or the United Stat...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press,, [2018] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Fordham scholarship online.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (241 pages) |
| Notes: | This edition previously issued in print: 2018. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Note on Translations and Romanizations
- List of Commonly Used Acronyms and Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. Japan in the 1950s: Symbolic Victims
- 2. Okinawa, 1945–1952: Allegories of Becoming
- 3. Okinawa, 1952–1958: Solidarity under the Cover of Darkness
- 4. Okinawa, 1958–1972: The Subaltern Speaks
- 5. Okinawa, 1972–1995: Life That Matters
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index