The American Occupation of Japan and Okinawa: Literature and Memory (Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations)

How do the Japanese and Okinawans remember Occupation? How is memory constructed and transmitted? Michael Molasky explores these questions through careful, sensitive readings of literature from mainland Japan and Okinawa. This book sheds light on difficult issues of war, violence, prostitution, colonialism and post-colonialism in the context of the Occupations of Japan and Okinawa. "This book is an exploration, through literature, of Japan's and Okinawa's experience of American military occupation. It provides textual analysis and discussions of post-war history, and juxtaposes literature from men and women, by well-known and less well-known writers from mainland Japan and Okinawa."--Publisher's description A Base Town In The Literary Imagination A Darker Shade Of Difference Epilogue:occupation Literature In The Post-vietnam Era Introduction:burned-out Ruins And Barbed -wire Fences Roads To No-man's Land Michael S. Molasky. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [222]-238) And Index. Through careful analysis of literary texts and attention to writers and works long excluded from Japan's postwar literary canon, this book introduces fresh perspectives on the occupation era Today Japan's postwar ruins lie buried beneath the skyscrapers and mammoth department stores of the nation's prosperity.