An absent presence : Japanese Americans in postwar American culture, 1945-1960

著者

    • Simpson, Caroline Chung

書誌事項

An absent presence : Japanese Americans in postwar American culture, 1945-1960

Caroline Chung Simpson

(New Americanists)

Duke University Press, 2001

  • : pbk
  • : hard

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注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. [216]-225) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

There have been many studies on the forced relocation and internment of nearly 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II. But An Absent Presence is the first to focus on how popular representations of this unparalleled episode in U.S. history affected the formation of Cold War culture. Caroline Chung Simpson shows how the portrayal of this economic and social disenfranchisement haunted-and even shaped-the expression of American race relations and national identity throughout the middle of the twentieth century. Simpson argues that when popular journals or social theorists engaged the topic of Japanese American history or identity in the Cold War era they did so in a manner that tended to efface or diminish the complexity of their political and historical experience. As a result, the shadowy figuration of Japanese American identity often took on the semblance of an "absent presence." Individual chapters feature such topics as the case of the alleged Tokyo Rose, the Hiroshima Maidens Project, and Japanese war brides. Drawing on issues of race, gender, and nation, Simpson connects the internment episode to broader themes of postwar American culture, including the atomic bomb, McCarthyism, the crises of racial integration, and the anxiety over middle-class gender roles. By recapturing and reexamining these vital flashpoints in the projection of Japanese American identity, Simpson fills a critical and historical void in a number of fields including Asian American studies, American studies, and Cold War history.

目次

Acknowledgments Introduction 1. "That Faint and Elusive Insinuation": Remembering Internment and the Dawn of the Postwar 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 Epilogue Bibliography Notes

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA56181479
  • ISBN
    • 0822327465
    • 0822327562
  • LCCN
    2001040213
  • 出版国コード
    us
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    Durham
  • ページ数/冊数
    xi, 234 p.
  • 大きさ
    25 cm
  • 親書誌ID
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