An Absent Presence - Japanese Americans in Postwar American Culture, 1945-1960

"An Absent Presence" is an ambitious, nuanced, and far-reaching analysis of a critical topic that adds much to our understanding of American history and in particular the central role Asian Americans have played in it."--David Palumbo-Liu, author of "Asian/American: Historical Crossings of a Racial Frontier"

List of contents

Acknowledgments>
Introduction

1. “That Faint and Elusive Insinuation”: Remembering Internment and the Dawn of the Postwar
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2. The Internment of Anthropology: Wartime Studies of Japanese Culture

3. How Rose Becomes Red: The Case of Tokyo Rose and the Postwar Beginnings of Cold War Culture

4. “A Mutual Brokenness”: The Hiroshima Maidens Project, Japanese Americans, and American Motherhood

5. “Out of an Obscure Place”: Japanese War Brides and Cultural Pluralism in the 1950s
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Epilogue

Bibliography

Notes

About the author

Caroline Chung Simpson is Associate Professor of English at the University of Washington.

Product details

• Authors: Caroline Chung Simpson
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.01.2002
• EAN: 9780822327462
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2746-2
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 234 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 399 g
• Series: New Americanists
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Amerikanische Geschichte, 1950 bis 1959 n. Chr., Kulturwissenschaften, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte