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Author Igarashi, Yoshikuni, 1960-

Title Bodies of memory : narratives of war in postwar Japanese culture, 1945-1970 / Yoshikuni Igarashi
Published Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (x, 284 pages) : illustrations
Contents 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
Summary 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 discourse ever could. He shows how the desire to represent the past motivated Japan's cultural productions in the first twenty-five years of the postwar period
Notes "A Princeton University Press E-Book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-274) and index
Notes English
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 18, 2020)
Subject HISTORY -- Asia -- Japan.
Civilization
Japanisch
Kriegserzählung
Kultur
Zweiter Weltkrieg Motiv
Tweede Wereldoorlog.
Geschiedschrijving.
Cultuur.
Collectief geheugen.
Psychische verwerking.
SUBJECT Japan -- Civilization -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069378
Subject Japan
Japan
Japon -- Civilisation -- 1945- ...
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781400842988
1400842980
1283379910
9781283379915
9786613379917
6613379913