Perilous Memories
by Fujitani, Takashi; White, Geoffrey M.; Yoneyama, LisaFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-06-01
Publisher(s): Duke Univ Pr
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Summary
"Unsettling official national accounts with memories of war from Okinawa, Guam, and Taiwan, of the Nanjing massacre, occupied Singapore, and the Hiroshima bombing--"PERILOUS MEMORIES" provokes a haunting dialectic between familiar history and endangered memories."--Lisa Lowe, University of California, San Diego
Author Biography
T. Fujitani is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego Geoffrey M. White is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Hawai'i and Fellow at the East-West Center in Honolulu Lisa Yoneyama is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies and Japanese Studies at the University of California, San Diego
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction | |
| Memory Fragments, Memory Images | |
| Absent Images of Memory: Remembering and Reenacting the Japanese Internment | |
| The Malleable and the Contested: The Nanjing Massacre in Postwar China and Japan | |
| Memories of War and Okinawa | |
| Images of Islanders in Pacific War Photographs | |
| Imagery and War in Japan: 1995 | |
| Politics and Poetics of Liberation | |
| Deliberating "Liberation Day": Identity, History, Memory, and War in Guam | |
| Imperial Army Betrayed | |
| Korean "Imperial Soldiers": Remembering Colonialism and Crimes against Allied POWs | |
| Memory Suppression and Memory Production: The Japanese Occupation of Singapore | |
| Go For Broke, the Movie, Japanese American Soldiers in U.S. National, Military, and Racial Discourses | |
| Moving History: The Pearl Harbor Film(s) | |
| Atonement, Healing, and Unexpected Alliances | |
| "Trapped in History" on the Way to Utopia: East Asia's "Great War" Fifty Years Later | |
| For Transformative Knowledge and Postnationalist Public Spheres: The Smithsonian Enola Gay Controversy | |
| "Frantic to Join . . . the Japanese Army": Black Soldiers and Civilians Confront the Asia Pacific War | |
| Colonialism and Atom Bombs: About Survivors of Hiroshima Living in Korea | |
| The Politics of War Memories toward Healing | |
| Bibliography | |
| Filmography | |
| Index | |
| Contributors | |
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