American Occupation of Japan and Okinawa; Literature and Memory (Asia's Transformations)
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A searching, sometimes searing, exploration of Japanese fiction about the doubled occupation (of Japan and Okinawa by the United Statess) and the doubled colonialism (of Japan and America in Okinawa), which brings home the dark sides of the postwar past in a sensitive and powerful critique.
-Carol Gluck, Columbia University
Molasky's excellent study of Japanese occupation literature is thoroughly researched, well written, and contributes substantially to our understanding of an extremely important but heretofore largely neglected area of postwar Japanese literature.
-David C. Stahl, The Journal of Asian Studies
This study of Japanese fiction ... makes plain the literary effects of Japan's own experience of foreign domination. That Molasky is sensitive not just to the political contents of this literature, but to its racial, sexual and gender import as well, speaks to the breadth of his critical acumen--not to mention the depth of the Japanese colonial experience itself.
-John Whittier Treat, University of Washington, Seattle
The America Occupation of Japan and Okinawa offers a penetrating analysis of how male writers have used sexual tropes to create national allegories into which they can insert themselves as victims. Molasky makes his point well, and in doing so tells us a great deal about marginalized female and Okinawan writers.
-Journal of Japanese Studies, 27:2 (2001)
The American Occupation of Japan and Okinawa: Literature and Memory is a definitive work, the result of a Herculean task. Researchers for years to come will be indebted by this groundbreaking project.
-Humanities and Social Sciences Online
Book Description
How do the Japanese and Okinawans remember Occupation? Michael Molasky explores these questions through careful, sensitive readings of literature from mainland Japan and Okinawa. This book sheds light on difficult issues of war, violence, prostitution, colonialism and post-colonialism in the context of the Occupations of Japan and Okinawa.
American Occupation of Japan and Okinawa (Asia's Transformations),M. Molasky,Routledge,0415260442,1945-1989,Asia - Japan,Asian - General,Asian - Japanese,Ethnic Studies - General,History,History and criticism,Japanese fiction,Literary Criticism,Literature: Classics,Military occupation in literat,Military occupation in literature,Ryukyu Islands,Sociology,Cultural studies,Japan,Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -,Social Science / Ethnic Studies
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