Nation, Memory, and War
This book examines the social and historical creationof national and personal identities in the aftermathof war. For Japanese Americans, citizenship proved tobe an unstable terrain for them to build theiridentity upon because of the large scale internmentof... Viac o knihe
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This book examines the social and historical creationof national and personal identities in the aftermathof war. For Japanese Americans, citizenship proved tobe an unstable terrain for them to build theiridentity upon because of the large scale internmentof all people of Japanese ancestry, citizen andnon-citizen alike, from the western region of theUnited States. How were these citizens able toconstruct an identity in light of this denial ofnational subjectivity? Contemporary theories ofidentity and nation are used to read key JapaneseAmerican texts in addition to cultural texts such aspublic commemorations and educational practices. Alsoanalyzed are the mechanisms of national memorycreation and commemoration surrounding moments ofnational shame.In Japan, the Pacific War has become a particularlyfraught decade of remembrance and the proliferationof memoirs after the death of Emperor Hirohitoattests to this. Several short memoirs are read forthe collaborative and sometimes subversiverelationship between national and personalmemory-making and for the disruptive trauma of defeat.
- Vydavateľstvo: VDM Verlag
- Formát: Paperback
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- ISBN: 9783639162981
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