Japanese fiction of the Allied occupation : vision, embodiment, identity

Summary: The reconstruction of identity in post World War II Japan after the trauma of war, defeat and occupation forms the subject of this latest volume in Brill's monograph series "Japanese Studies Library". Closely examining the role of fiction produced during the Allied Occupation, Sharalyn Orbaugh begins with an examination of the rhetoric of wartime propaganda, and explores how elements of that rhetoric were redeployed postwar as authors produced fiction linked to the redefinition of what it means to be Japanese. Drawing on tools and methods from trauma studies, gender and race studies, and film and literary theory, the study traces important nodes in the construction and maintenance of discourses of identity through attention to writers' representations of the gaze, the body, language, and social performance. This book will be of interest to any student of the literary or cultural history of World War II and its aftermath.

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ISBN: 9004155465
ISBN: 9789004155466
ISBN: 9781281458094
ISBN: 1281458090
ISBN: 9047411668
ISBN: 9789047411666
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 515 pages)
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Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 485-501) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Cover -- Contents -- LIST OF PLATES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOTE TO THE READER -- PART I MEMORY AND HISTORY -- CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION MEMORY, TRAUMA, NARRATIVE -- CHAPTER TWO THE ALLIED OCCUPATION -- PART II VISION -- CHAPTER THREE THE MIRROR AND THE MASQUERADE THEORIES OF VISION -- CHAPTER FOUR VISION IN FICTION -- PART III THE BODY -- CHAPTER FIVE THEORIES OF EMBODIMENT -- CHAPTER SIX NATIONAL MOBILIZATION FROM NATION TO GUNKOKU (A COUNTRY AT WAR) -- CHAPTER SEVEN THE DISARTICULATED BODY MEN WRITING MEN -- CHAPTER EIGHT PRODUCTION AND REPRODUCTION WOMEN WRITING WOMEN -- PART IV THE VISIBLE BODY -- CHAPTER NINE THEORIES OF THE VISIBLE BODY -- CHAPTER TEN THE MARGINS OF NARRATIVE EMBODIMENT -- CHAPTER ELEVEN CONCLUSION: THE CONTINUING EFFECTS OF OCCUPATION -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.