Record Nr.

UNINA9910785896203321

Titolo

Legacies of the Asia-Pacific War : the yakeato generation / / edited by Roman Rosenbaum and Yasuko Claremont

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-283-60734-4

9786613919793

1-136-93622-X

0-203-84671-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (267 p.)

Collana

Routledge contemporary Japan series ; ; v. 31

Altri autori (Persone)

ClaremontYasuko <1944->

RosenbaumRoman

Disciplina

306.0952/09045

306.095209045

Soggetti

World War, 1939-1945 - Social aspects - Japan

Japan Social conditions 1945-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Legacies of the Asia-Pacific War: The yakeato generation; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Part I Setting the stage for the yakeato generation; 1 Legacies of the Asia-Pacific War: The yakeato (the burnt-out ruins) generation; 2 Nihon ni okeru kyō no sengoron: Current post-war discourse in Japan; Part II Pre-yakeato: Provenance of a generation to come; 3 Ōhara Tomie and A Woman Called En; 4 The legacy of Watanabe Kazuo (1901-1975); Part III The yakeato cohort: Offspring of war; 5 The legacy of the yakeato generation: Oda Makoto's literary social criticism

6 A yakeato poet: Irisawa Yasuo7 Ariyoshi Sawako and Sono Ayako: Young women writers of the yakeato generation; Part IV Post-yakeato: The heritage of a generation; 8 Graphic depictions of the Asia-Pacific War; 9 Laughter and tears: The complex narrative of Nosaka Akiyuki's Hotaru no haka (Grave of the Fireflies); 10 Japanese poetry and the legacies of war; 11 Language and body: Betsuyaku Minoru and the 'Small Theatre movement' (Shōgekijō undō) in the 1960s; 12 Kuroki Kazuo's requiem for war; 13 Architecture in the Mono-no-nai-jidai; 14

Summation: Children of war; Yakeato research bibliography

Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 th