Long Defeat - Cultural Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Japan

Zusatztext Hashimoto makes a welcome contribution to the methodology of trauma studies. She proposes and tests an interesting "method of shadow comparisons," the method of data elaboration. Informationen zum Autor Akiko Hashimoto is Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh; author of Imagined Families, Lived Families: Culture and kinship in contemporary Japan (SUNY 2008), The Gift of Generations: Japanese and American Perspectives on Aging and the Social Contract (CUP 1996), and Family Support for the Elderly: The International Experience (OUP 1992). Klappentext The Long Defeat explores war memory in Japan after World War II, showing how and why defeat remains an indelible part of national life. The book shows that assessing the culture of defeat is the key to understanding Japan's "history problem" - the disputes over revising the pacifist constitution, remilitarization, and frictions in East Asia. Zusammenfassung The Long Defeat explores war memory in Japan after World War II, showing how and why defeat remains an indelible part of national life. The book shows that assessing the culture of defeat is the key to understanding Japan's "history problem" - the disputes over revising the pacifist constitution, remilitarization, and frictions in East Asia.

Product details

• Authors: Akiko Hashimoto, Akiko (Associate Professor of Sociology Hashimoto, Hashimoto Akiko
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.07.2015
• EAN: 9780190239152
• ISBN: 978-0-19-023915-2
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Japan, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, 21st Century, 21st century history: from c 2000 -, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Asian History, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period)