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Record Nr.

UNINA9910793334103321

Autore

Tang Edward

Titolo

From confinement to containment : Japanese/American arts during the early Cold War / / Edward Tang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; ; Rome ; ; Tokyo : , : Temple University Press, , 2019

ISBN

1-4399-1750-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 pages)

Collana

Asian American history and culture

Classificazione

SOC043000HIS036060HIS021000LIT004030

Disciplina

704.03956073

Soggetti

Japanese American art - 20th century - Themes, motives

Arts, Japanese - 20th century - Themes, motives

Arts and society - United States - History - 20th century

Arts and society - Japan - History - 20th century

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies

HISTORY / United States / 20th Century

HISTORY / Asia / Japan

LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Asian American

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Reorienting Empires : Hanama Tasaki's War Guilt and U.S.-Japan Relations -- Sleeping with the Frenemy: Yamaguchi Yoshiko as Japanese War Bride -- Beyond Confinement: The Racialized Cosmopolitan Style of Henry Sugimoto -- Teach Your Children Well: The Postwar Tales of Yoshiko Uchida.

Sommario/riassunto

"From Confinement to Containment examines four Japanese and Japanese American artists--the novelist Hanama Tasaki, the actor Yamaguchi Yoshiko, the painter Henry Sugimoto, and the children's author Yoshiko Uchida--whose lives and work explored overlapping transpacific legacies of immigration, imperialism, confinement, and global conflict in U.S.-Japan relations"--