Transgenerational remembrance : performance and the Asia Pacific war in contemporary Japan / Jessica Nakamura.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nakamura, Jessica, author.

Series:

Performance works

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater--Japan--History--20th century.

Theater.

Japanese drama.

History.

Japan.

Theater--Japan--History--21st century.

Japanese drama--20th century--History and criticism.

Japanese drama--21st century--History and criticism.

World War, 1939-1945--Literature and the war.

World War, 1939-1945.

War and literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 213 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2020.

Summary:

"Transgenerational Remembrance examines the legacy of the Asia-Pacific War in Japan (1931-1945) through contemporary output in theater and performance art. This book explicates art and theatrical productions dealing with kamikaze pilots, Japanese imperialism, comfort women, the Battle of Okinawa, and Japanese American internment"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Ghosts of the Asia-Pacific War in Contemporary Japan

Lingering Legacies of the War: Performance and Specters at Yasukuni Shrine

Returning Kamikaze: Popular Culture, Affect, and Theatrical Repetition

Staging Response-ability: Historical Omissions and the Audience

Becoming Missing "Comfort Women": Embodiment, History, and Position

Acts That Do Not Transfer: The Battle of Okinawa and Situated Testimony

Making Unresolved Japanese American Histories: Transpacific Possession and Response-ability as Conflict

Ghosts and the Future

Notes:

Revised version of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Stanford University, 2014.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780810141292

0810141299

9780810141308

0810141302

OCLC:

1112129405