Japanese Fiction of the Allied Occupation
Subtitle: Vision, Embodiment, Identity (Brill's Japanese Studies Library)
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Published: December 15, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 515
ISBN-13: 9789004155466
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Social Science; Sociology; Japanese; Asian - General; General; Ethnic Studies - General; 1945-1989; History and criticism; Japanese fiction; Military occupation in literature
Description: "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." -- Publisher's description.