American Occupation of Japan and Okinawa Literature and Memory

Name: American Occupation of Japan and Okinawa Literature and Memory
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List price: $66.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 8/12/2005
Pages: 256
Language: English



Preface


Introduction


Burned-Out Ruins and Barbed-Wire Fences


The Occupation of Japan as History


The Occupation in Mainland Japanese Literature and Criticism


Okinawa: From Premodern Kingdom to Japanese Prefecture


The Battle of Okinawa and the American Occupation (1945-1972)


Chapter Summaries


Notes



Roads to No-Man's Land


Language,Landscape and Gender in "The American School"


Gender, History and the Construction of Victimhood in The Cocktail Party


Fact and Fiction


Notes



A Base Town In The Literary Imagination


An Okinawan Boy


"The Town That Went Pale"


"Children of Mixed Blood" and the Remaking of Koza


Notes



A Darker Shade of Difference


Representing Blacks in Postwar Japan


Race and Narrative Ambivalance in "Prize Stock"


Reporting Truth, Imagining Motives: "Painting on Black Canvas"


Poetry of Protest: Arakawa Akira's "The Coloured Race"


Notes



Female Floodwalls


The Recreation and Amusement Association


Prostitution After the RAA


Prostitution and the Japanese Publishing Industry


The Chastity of Japan


Female Floodwall


Notes



Ambivalent Allegories


The Generational Logic of "Guests From Afar"


Prostitution and Other Honest Jobs: "The Only Ones"


Caste and Outcasts: "Women of a Base Town"


Marriage, Money and Desire: "The Women of Chitose, Hokkaido"


Notes



The Occupier Within


Reproducing The Occupation: "Human Sheep"


Style as Story: Narrative Technique and Memory in "American Hijiki"


Notes Epilogue: Occupation Literature in the Post-Vietnam Era


Okinawan Literature Since the Vietnam War


Saegusa Kazuko's A Winter's Death


Notes