LEADER 04984nam 22007695 450 001 9910367656203321 005 20231019143627.0 010 $a0-8232-8593-6 010 $a0-8232-8268-6 010 $a0-8232-8267-8 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823282685 035 $a(CKB)4100000007101041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5568662 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0002091445 035 $a(OCoLC)1059450756 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse68801 035 $a(DE-B1597)555028 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823282685 035 $a(OCoLC)1061110988 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5568662 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007101041 100 $a20200723h20182019 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAlegal $eBiopolitics and the Unintelligibility of Okinawan Life /$fAnnmaria M. Shimabuku 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cFordham University Press,$d[2018] 210 4$dİ2019 215 $a1 online resource (241 pages) 225 1 $aFordham scholarship online 300 $aThis edition previously issued in print: 2018. 311 $a0-8232-8266-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tNote on Translations and Romanizations --$tList of Commonly Used Acronyms and Abbreviations --$tIntroduction --$t1. Japan in the 1950s: Symbolic Victims --$t2. Okinawa, 1945?1952: Allegories of Becoming --$t3. Okinawa, 1952?1958: Solidarity under the Cover of Darkness --$t4. Okinawa, 1958?1972: The Subaltern Speaks --$t5. Okinawa, 1972?1995: Life That Matters --$tConclusion --$tAcknowledgments --$tNotes --$tSelected Bibliography --$tIndex 330 $aOkinawan life, at the crossroads of American militarism and Japanese capitalism, embodies a fundamental contradiction to the myth of the monoethnic state. Suspended in a state of exception, Okinawans have never been officially classified as colonial subjects of the Japanese empire or the United States, nor have they ever been treated as equal citizens of Japan. As a result, they live amid one of the densest concentrations of U.S. military bases in the world. By bringing Foucauldian biopolitics into conversation with Japanese Marxian theorizations of capitalism, Alegal uncovers Japan?s determination to protect its middle class from the racialized sexual contact around its mainland bases by displacing them onto Okinawa, while simultaneously upholding Okinawa as a symbol of the infringement of Japanese sovereignty figured in terms of a patriarchal monoethnic state. This symbolism, however, has provoked ambivalence within Okinawa. In base towns that facilitated encounters between G.I.s and Okinawan women, the racial politics of the United States collided with the postcolonial politics of the Asia Pacific. Through close readings of poetry, reportage, film, and memoir on base-town life since 1945, Shimabuku traces a continuing failure to ?become Japanese.? What she discerns instead is a complex politics surrounding sex work, tipping with volatility along the razor?s edge between insurgency and collaboration. At stake in sovereign power?s attempt to secure Okinawa as a military fortress was the need to contain alegality itself?that is, a life force irreducible to the legal order. If biopolitics is the state?s attempt to monopolize life, then Alegal is a story about how borderland actors reclaimed the power of life for themselves. In addition to scholars of Japan and Okinawa, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in postcolonialism, militarism, mixed-race studies, gender and sexuality, or the production of sovereignty in the modern world. 410 0$aFordham scholarship online. 606 $aBiopolitics$zJapan$zOkinawa-shi 606 $aSoldiers$xSexual behavior$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aMilitary bases, American$xSocial aspects$zJapan$zOkinawa-ken 606 $aMiscegenation$zJapan$zOkinawa-shi$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aOkinawa-shi (Japan)$xHistory$y20th century 610 $aJapanese Marxism. 610 $aJapanese New Left. 610 $aJapanese proletarian literature. 610 $aOkinawa. 610 $aU.S. military prostitution. 610 $abiopolitics. 610 $alumpenproletariat. 610 $amixed-race studies. 610 $apostcolonial Japanese studies. 610 $atranspacific studies. 615 0$aBiopolitics 615 0$aSoldiers$xSexual behavior$xHistory 615 0$aMilitary bases, American$xSocial aspects 615 0$aMiscegenation$xHistory 676 $a952/.29404 676 $a952.29404 700 $aShimabuku$b Annmaria M.$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01205034 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910367656203321 996 $aAlegal$92780981 997 $aUNINA