Absent Presence

Japanese Americans in Postwar American Culture, 1945-1960

Szerző: Caroline Simpson

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Kötés: Puha kötésű

Kiadó: Duke University Press

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There have been many studies on the forced relocation and internment of nearly 120,000 Japanese Amer...

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Szerző

Caroline Simpson

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

2002

oldal

248

EAN

9780822327462

ISBN

0822327465

Enbook ID

04937462

Kiadó

Duke University Press

Súly

454

Méretek

146 x 236 x 19

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There have been many studies on the forced relocation and internment of nearly 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II. But An Absent Presence is the first to focus on how popular representations of this unparalleled episode in U.S. history affected the formation of Cold War culture. Caroline Chung Simpson shows how the portrayal of this economic and social disenfranchisement haunted - and even shaped - the expression of American race relations and national identity throughout the middle of the twentieth century. Simpson argues that when popular journals or social theorists engaged the topic of Japanese American history or identity in the Cold War era they did so in a manner that tended to efface or diminish the complexity of their political and historical experience. As a result, the shadowy figuration of Japanese American identity often took on the semblance of an "absent presence." Individual chapters feature such topics as the case of the alleged Tokyo Rose, the Hiroshima Maidens Project, and Japanese war brides. Drawing on issues of race, gender, and nation, Simpson connects the internment episode to broader themes of postwar American culture, including the atomic bomb, McCarthyism, the crises of racial integration, and the anxiety over middle-class gender roles. By recapturing and reexamining these vital flashpoints in the projection of Japanese American identity, Simpson fills a critical and historical void in a number of fields including Asian American studies, American studies, and Cold War history.

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