Cultures of Commemoration : The Politics of War, Memory, and History in the Mariana Islands / Keith L. Camacho.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Camacho, Keith L., author.

Series:

Pacific islands monograph series ; no. 25.

Pacific Islands Monographs Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chamorro (Micronesian people)--History--20th century.

Chamorro (Micronesian people).

Collective memory--Mariana Islands.

Collective memory.

War and society--Mariana Islands.

War and society.

World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--Mariana Islands.

World War, 1939-1945.

Mariana Islands--Colonial influence.

Mariana Islands.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 p.)

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2011]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 1941 the Japanese military attacked the US naval base Pearl Harbor on the Hawaiian island of O'ahu. Although much has been debated about this event and the wider American and Japanese involvement in the war, few scholars have explored the Pacific War's impact on Pacific Islanders. Cultures of Commemoration fills this crucial gap in the historiography by advancing scholarly understanding of Pacific Islander relations with and knowledge of American and Japanese colonialisms in the twentieth century.Drawing from an extensive archival base of government, military, and popular records, Chamorro scholar Keith L Camacho traces the formation of divergent colonial and indigenous histories in the Mariana Islands, an archipelago located in the western Pacific and home to the Chamorro people. He shows that US colonial governance of Guam, the southernmost island, and that of Japan in the Northern Mariana Islands created competing colonial histories that would later inform how Americans, Chamorros, and Japanese experienced and remembered the war and its aftermath. Central to this discussion is the American and Japanese administrative development of "loyalty" and "liberation" as concepts of social control, collective identity, and national belonging. Just how various Chamorros from Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands negotiated their multiple identities and subjectivities is explored with respect to the processes of history and memory-making among this "Americanized" and "Japanized" Pacific Islander population. In addition, Camacho emphasizes the rise of war commemorations as sites for the study of American national historic landmarks, Chamorro Liberation Day festivities, and Japanese bone-collecting missions and peace pilgrimages.Ultimately, Cultures of Commemoration demonstrates that the past is made meaningful and at times violent by competing cultures of American, Chamorro, and Japanese commemorative practices.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Editor's Note

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: War, Memory, History

Chapter 1. Loyalty and Liberation

Chapter 2. World War II in the Mariana Islands

Chapter 3. The War's Aftermath

Chapter 4. From Processions to Parades

Chapter 5. The Land without Heroes

Chapter 6. On the Margins of Memory and History

Chapter 7. On the Life Death of Father Dueñas

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-216) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)

ISBN:

9780824868512

082486851X

9780824860318

0824860314

OCLC:

868974409