Bodies of memory : narratives of war in postwar Japanese culture, 1945-1970

Bodies of memory : narratives of war in postwar Japanese culture, 1945-1970 / Yoshikuni Igarashi.

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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Main Author: Igarashi, Yoshikuni, 1960-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2000.
Subjects:
Since 1945
HISTORY > Asia > Japan.
Civilization
Japanisch
Kriegserzählung
Kultur
Zweiter Weltkrieg > Motiv
Tweede Wereldoorlog.
Geschiedschrijving.
Cultuur.
Collectief geheugen.
Psychische verwerking.
Japan > Civilization > 1945-
Japan
Japon > Civilisation > 1945- ...
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Table of 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.

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