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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nakamura, Jessica, Author.

Series:

Performance works.

Performance works

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Theater.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

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.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8101-4131-0

OCLC:

1137756792