Bodies of memory narratives of war in postwar Japanese culture, 1945-1970

Igarashi, Yoshikuni 1960- (Author).

Summary: 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 war loss and the resulting national trauma, even as forces within the society sought to suppress these memories. Igarashi argues that Japan's nationhood survived the war's destruction in part through a popular culture that expressed memories of loss and devastation more readily than political discour.

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ISBN: 9780691049120 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0691049122 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780691049113 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0691049114 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 1400842980 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9781400842988 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 284 p.) : ill.
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Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2000.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-274) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter I. The Bomb; Chapter II. The Age of the Body; Chapter III. A Nation That Never Is: Cultural Discourse on Japanese Uniqueness; Chapter IV. Naming the Unnameable; Chapter V. From the Anti-Security Treaty Movement to the Tokyo Olympics: Transforming the Body, the Metropolis, and Memory; Chapter VI. Re-presenting Trauma In Late-1960s Japan; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index;
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