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"Unsettling official national accounts with memories of war from Okinawa, Guam, and Taiwan, of the Nanjing massacre, occupied Singapore, and the Hiroshima bombing--"PERILOUS MEMORIES" provokes a haunting dialectic between familiar history and endangered memories."--Lisa Lowe, University of California, San Diego
List of contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction / T. Fujitani, Geoffrey M. White, and Lisa Yoneyama 1
1. Memory Fragments, Memory Images
Absent Images of Memory: Remembering and Reenacting the Japanese Internment / Marita Sturken 33
The Malleable and the Contested: The Nanjing Massacre in Postwar China and Japan / Daqing Yang 50
Memories of War and Okinawa / Ishihara Masaie 87
Images of Islanders in Pacific War Photographs / Lamont Lindstrom 107
Imagery and War in Japan: 1995 / Morio Watanabe 129
2. Politics and Poetics of Liberation
Deliberating “Liberation Day”: Identity, History, Memory, and War in Guam / Vicente M. Diaz 155
Imperial Army Betrayed / Chen Yingzhen 181
Korean “Imperial Soldiers”: Remembering Colonialism and Crimes against Allied POWs / Utsumi Aiko 199
Memory Suppression and Memory Production: The Japanese Occupation of Singapore / Diana Wong 218
Go For Broke, the Movie, Japanese American Soldiers in U.S. National, Military, and Racial Discourses / T. Fujitani 239
Moving History: The Pearl Harbor Film(s) / Geoffrey M. White 267
3. Atonement, Healing, and Unexpected Alliances
“Trapped in History” on the Way to Utopia: East Asia’s “Great War” Fifty Years Later / Arif Dirlik 299
For Transformative Knowledge and Postnationalist Public Spheres: The Smithsonian
Enola Gay Controversy / Lisa Yoneyama 323
“Frantic to Join . . . the Japanese Army”: Black Soldiers and Civilians Confront the Asia Pacific War / George Lipsitz 347
Colonialism and Atom Bombs: About Survivors of Hiroshima Living in Korea / Toyonaga Keisaburo 378
The Politics of War Memories toward Healing / Chungmoo Choi 395
Bibliography 411
Filmography 435
Index 437
Contributors 461
About the author
T. Fujitani, Geoffrey M. White, Lisa Yoneyama, eds.
Summary
Makes a intervention into debates about war memory in the Asia Pacific region. Arguing that much is lost or erased when the Asia Pacific War(s) are reduced to the 1941-1945 war between Japan and the United States, this title challenges mainstream memories of the Second World War in favour of what were actually multiple, widespread conflicts.
