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Author Shimabuku, Annmaria M

Title Alegal : Biopolitics and the Unintelligibility of Okinawan Life
Published New York : Fordham University Press, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (241 pages)
Contents Cover; ALEGAL; Title; Copyright; Dedication; 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
Summary Alegal traces the trans-Pacific biopolitics between a postwar American empire of military bases and postcolonial Japan that secured Okinawa as a U.S. military fortress. It shows how both managed sex in its base towns from 1945 to 2015, and elucidates the potential for Okinawan insurgency in response to this collaboration
Analysis Japanese Marxism
Japanese New Left
Japanese proletarian literature
Okinawa
U.S. military prostitution
biopolitics
lumpenproletariat
mixed-race studies
postcolonial Japanese studies
transpacific studies
Notes Print version record
Subject Biopolitics -- Japan -- Okinawa-shi
Military bases, American -- Social aspects -- Japan -- Okinawa-ken
Miscegenation -- Japan -- Okinawa-shi -- History -- 20th century
Soldiers -- Sexual behavior -- United States -- History -- 20th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General.
Biopolitics
Military bases, American -- Social aspects
Miscegenation
Soldiers -- Sexual behavior
Japan -- Okinawa-ken
Japan -- Okinawa-shi
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780823282685
0823282686
9780823282678
0823282678