ABSTRACT

How do the Japanese and Okinawans remember Occupation? How is memory constructed and transmitted? Michael Molasky explores these questions through careful, sensitive readings of literature from mainland Japan and Okinawa. This book sheds light on difficult issues of war, violence, prostitution, colonialism and post-colonialism in the context of the Occupations of Japan and Okinawa.

chapter |25 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|29 pages

Roads to no-man’s land

chapter 2|18 pages

A base town in the literary imagination

chapter 3|34 pages

A darker shade of difference

chapter 4|29 pages

Female floodwalls

chapter 5|28 pages

Ambivalent allegories

chapter 6|22 pages

The occupier within