Bodies of memory : narratives of war in postwar Japanese culture, 1945-1970 /
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 memo...
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Language notes: | English. |
| Imprint: | Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2000. |
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- I. The Bomb, Hirohito, and History: The Foundamental Narrative of Postwar Relations between Japan and United States
- II. The Age of the Body
- III. A Nation that Never Is: Cultural Discourse on Japanese Uniqeness
- IV. Naming the Unnameable
- V. From the Anti-Security Treaty Movement to the Tokoyo Olympics: Transforming the Body, the Metropolis, and Memory
- VI. Re-Presenting Trauma in Late-1960s Japan
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index