Legacies of the Asia-Pacific War : the Yakeato generation
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Legacies of the Asia-Pacific War : the Yakeato generation
(RoutledgeCurzon contemporary Japan series, 31)
Routledge, 2014, c2009
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Note
Originally published: 2011
Includes bibliographical references (p. [238]-244) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
When we look in detail at the various peripheral groups of disenfranchised people emerging from the aftermath of the Asia-Pacific War the list is startling: Koreans in Japan (migrants or forced labourers), Burakumin, Hibakusha, Okinawans, Asian minorities, comfort women and many others. Many of these groups have been discussed in a large corpus of what we may call 'disenfranchised literature', and the research presented in this book intends to add an additional and particularly controversial example to the long list of the voice- and powerless. The presence of members of what is known as the yakeato sedai or the generation of people who experienced the fire-bombings of the Asia-Pacific War is conspicuous in all areas of contemporary Japan. From literature to the visual arts, from music to theatre, from architecture to politics, their influence and in many cases guiding principles is evident everywhere and in many cases forms the keystone of modern Japanese society and culture.
The contributors to this book explore the impact of the yakeato generation - and their literary, creative and cultural and works - on the postwar period by drawing out the importance of the legacy of those people who truly survived the darkest hour of the twentieth century and re-evaluate the ramifications of their experiences in contemporary Japanese society and culture. As such this book will be of huge interest to those studying Japanese history, literature, poetry and cultural studies.
Table of Contents
Part I: Setting the stage for the yakeato generation 1. Introduction: Legacies of the Asia-Pacific War: The yakeato (the Burnt-Out Ruins) Generation Roman Rosenbaum 2. Current Postwar Discourse in Japan (Suzuki Sadami) Part II: Pre-yakeato: Provenance of a Generation To Come 3. Ohara Tomie and A Woman Called En Hiroko Kobayashi 4. The Legacy of Watanabe Kazuo Yasuko Claremont Part III: The Yakeato Cohort: Offspring of War 5. The Legacy of the yakeato Generation: Oda Makoto's Literary Social Criticism Roman Rosenbaum 6. A yakeato Poet: Irisawa Yasuo Yasuko Claremont 7. Ariyoshi Sawako and Sono Ayako: Young Women Writers of the Yakeato Generation Barbara Hartley Part IV: Post-yakeato: The Heritage of a Generation 8. Graphic Depictions of the Asia-Pacific War Roman Rosenbaum 9. Laughter and Tears: The Complex Narrative of Nosaka Akiyuki's Hotaru no haka Hiroko Cockerill 10. Japanese Poetry and the Legacies of War Leith Morton 11. Language and Body: Betsuyaku Minoru and the 'Small Theatre Movement' Shogekijo Undo in the 1960s Masahito Takayashiki 12. Kuroki Kazuo's Requiem for War Carol Hayes 13. Architecture in the Mono-no-nai jidai Peter Armstrong 14. Summation: Children of War Yasuko Claremont 15. Yakeato Research Bibliography
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